On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 01:28 -0400, Andrew wrote:

Hi,

I haven't updated today, well yesterday now, but as of 9/28 updates that was working was working. I have not taken the hal updates after 0.2.98cvs20040923 since it versions after that don't seem to get a value for the the mount point property -- I haven't had time to figure out what that deal is, but... If you run hal-device-manager and look at the properties for the the CD-ROM does it have a mount point filed in?

If you haven't seen the following thread on the -devel- list, you should read it.

[Console user mount patch and FC3] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-September/msg01244.htm...

Its probably something else, but hey it was strangely similar to that discussion ;-\

Andrew

Thanks for your reply, Andrew. I suspect you are correct that this is related to my problem.

My version of hal is: [gerry@gstpc-test ~]$ rpm -q hal hal-0.2.98.cvs20040929-1

I have no file/command named hal-device-manager on my system. There is a command hal-get-property:

usage : hal-get-property --udi <udi> --key <key> [--hex] [--quiet] [--help] [--verbose] [-- version]

--udi Unique Device Id --key Key of the property to get --hex Show integer values in hex (without leading 0x) --verbose Be verbose --version Show version and exit --help Show this information and exit

This program retrieves a property from a device. If the property exist then it is printed on stdout and this program exits with exit code 0. On error, the program exits with an exit code different from 0

However, I do not know how to find the udi or key of a device to make use of this command.

The fstab entries for my CD devices are: /dev/hdd /media/cdrw_dvdrw auto noauto,console,exec,managed,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrw auto noauto,console,exec,managed,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro 0 0

which are nothing like I am used to using. It looks to me like hal is the feature from hell. I suspect it is probably related to my networked printing not functioning in FC3T2 also.

Gerry

Gerry Tool wrote:

...

I just made a fresh installation of FC3T2 Personal Desktop and installed all available updates.

Unlike a previous install of FC3T2, I cannot mount any of these drives.

What is the cause and how does a user get to mount them now?

Thanks.

Gerry Tool