Re: KDE doesn't connect to HAL

[Gebhardt Thomas <gebhardt@hrz.uni-marburg.de>]

Hi,

On Wednesday 12 December 2007 18:11, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> Run
> lshal --monitor
> and plug in the usb drive. Post the output that you get. (You might have
> to wait a few seconds; CTRL-C stops the monitoring.)

great hint! Thanks!

I get:

# lshal --monitor

Start monitoring devicelist:
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usb_device_457_150_cd2b3031a15bd1 added
usb_device_457_150_cd2b3031a15bd1_if0 added
usb_device_457_150_cd2b3031a15bd1_if0_scsi_host added
usb_device_457_150_cd2b3031a15bd1_usbraw added
usb_device_457_150_cd2b3031a15bd1_if0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0 added
usb_device_457_150_cd2b3031a15bd1_if0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0_scsi_generic 
added
storage_serial_256MB_USB2_0FlashDrive_cd2b3031a15bd1 added
volume_uuid_443C_F25C added

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Then a popup windows appears:

A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to 
this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had 
interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name 
"(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")

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This error message helped me to track down the the problem:
A line 
"session sufficient      pam_ldap.so" 
in /etc/pam.d/common-session was missing. Since we're using LDAP for
user authentication, this prevented HAL/debus from working.

Thanks a lot, Thomas