[start hal in 13.04] (was: [trinity-users] does not automount usb flashdrives) - tde-users

20 Feb 2014

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 > "Werner" == Werner Joss
&lt;werner(a)hoernerfranzracing.de&gt; writes: 
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  Am Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2014, 15:49:37 schrieb Uwe
Brauer:
> This time (for Kubuntu 13.05) it works for KDE4 (so the USB
> drive and the PC are not the problem), but *not* for trinity. 
...
  might be caused by kubuntu 13.04 no longer supporting
HAL, which is
 what trinity 3.5.x still uses.  R14 will be working without HAL, so
 you probably will have to wait for that. 
...
  werner 
First I would like to werner for his suggestion.

Indeed the hal daemon was not running on 13.04 and it took some effort
to start him, basically following 

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2140324

The crucial point was to create 

/etc/hal/fdi/preprobe
and
/etc/hal/fdi/information

Then running 
sudo  /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes

And then indeed

 ps aux | grep hald 

Returns 

,----
| 
| 114       5761  0.6  0.0 125032  4820 ?        Ssl  16:14   0:00 
| /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes
| root      5762  0.0  0.0 110812  1948 ?        Sl   16:14   0:00 hald-runner
| root      5794  0.0  0.0  39076  1900 ?        S    16:14   0:00 
| hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event2 /dev/input/event0 
| /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event7
| root      5795  0.0  0.0  39068  1820 ?        S    16:14   0:00 
| /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-generic-backlight
| root      5842  0.0  0.0  39072  1888 ?        S    16:14   0:00 
| hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec)
| root      5845  0.0  0.0  39084  1696 ?        S    16:14   0:00 
| /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-cpufreq
| 114       5846  0.0  0.0  26816  1352 ?        S    16:14   0:00 
| hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
| mjpons    5850  0.0  0.0  10648   932 pts/1    S+   16:14   0:00 grep hal
`----

which looks good, alas, I use a USB flash drive and it is *not* mounted
automatically as I hoped.

In Kubuntu 10.04 the ps command returns 

,----
| 106      24280  0.0  0.1  16988  4564 ?        Ssl  16:00   0:00 /usr/sbin/hald
| root     24281  0.0  0.0   3536  1280 ?        S    16:00   0:00 hald-runner
| root     24310  0.0  0.0   3612  1248 ?        S    16:00   0:00 hald-addon-input:
Listening on /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event7 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event5
/dev/input/event2 /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event12 /dev/input/event9
/dev/input/event8
| root     24313  0.0  0.0   3612  1224 ?        S    16:00   0:00
/usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-rfkill-killswitch
| root     24319  0.0  0.0   3612  1236 ?        S    16:00   0:00
/usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-leds
| root     24326  0.0  0.0   3608  1240 ?        S    16:00   0:00
/usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-generic-backlight
| root     24328  0.0  0.0   3624  1252 ?        S    16:00   0:00
/usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-cpufreq
| 106      24329  0.0  0.0   3420  1172 ?        S    16:00   0:00 hald-addon-acpi:
listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
| oub      24611  0.0  0.0   3324   808 pts/3    S+   16:05   0:00 grep hal
`----

Which looks a little different.

Any suggest is very very welcome

Uwe Brauer 