Guest exaurdon Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 (edited) Trying to look at removable Storage under System -> Config -> Hardware and states "The "hald" service is required but not currently running. Enable the service and rerun this applet, or contact your system administrator." Have haldamoen running at startup as well as Haddrake, so I'm wondering why it's saying that. Never had a problem with it on the other linux flavors I've installed in the attempt to get one that worked without the BS ;) Doesn't show in Devices, but does show up in Harddrake2 (My digital camera removable storage on USB.) Speaking of that...anyone gotten the Polaroid PDC 3070 to work? Thankees P.S. Mandriva 2006 Edited January 27, 2006 by exaurdon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 (edited) urpmi hal (will also install dbus if not already installed). Both dbus and hal should run as daemons. HAL (with pmount) is the current defacto way of managing removable media/storage devices, as both Gnome and KDE are built with HAL support. All other mounting methods are considered obsolete for now (although noone will prevent you trying to use them, of course). If running a very recent udev version, then neither hotplug, nor harddrake are needed at all. Edited January 27, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest exaurdon Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 ./haldaemen start fails...not really sure why...doesn't give an error message...that would be too easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Open the MCC, system, services and start HAL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 (edited) dbus ( AKA message bus ) should be started BEFORE the haldaemon, else hal wouldn't start. Start them either via mcc, or in a root console: service dbus start service hal start (maybe the /etc/init.d scripts have different names like "message bus" and "hald", since I don't run Mandy currently I don't know exactly...) Edited January 27, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 (edited) ./haldaemen start fails...not really sure why...doesn't give an error message...that would be too easy. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> IIRC, you need to do: service hald start Edited January 27, 2006 by Reiver_Fluffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest exaurdon Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 Try this another way. This is what Harddrake comes up with, but I have no way to access that directily without some sort of mounting going on. Identification Vendor: Sunplus Co Ltd Description: Polaroid Digital Camera Disk identifier: Polaroid Digital Camera Media class: hd (Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip)) ... Device Old device file: /dev/sde New devfs device: /dev/scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 27, 2006 Report Share Posted January 27, 2006 What Mandy version are you actually using? Mandriva 2006 uses udev, not the obsolete devfs... And forget harddrake, it won't help you- unless you disable it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest exaurdon Posted January 28, 2006 Report Share Posted January 28, 2006 What Mandy version are you actually using? 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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