HAL automounting failure :: How i rectified it … !!

Posted on May 20, 2008 - Filed Under Slackware |

Error Message
[————-
Failed to mount “AL1916W”.
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”)
————-]

All my cdroms/dvd/pendrive/exrtnlHD where automounted all these days ..
suddenly it stopped and gave me above message ..
If i mount it manually ,for eg:
->#mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom ..
Im able to use it as a normal user ab …
other wise the icon just comes and pops up the above message ..

Distro:Slackware 12.1
Desktop:Xfce4.4.2

Solution::Its applicable to all Desktop environment (i guess so)
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In this file
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf
->group :: pulgdev

Is only given permission to auto mount …
So i added my self to that group by editing /etc/groups .. file

What caused the Trouble ?
————————-

By default i was the member of pulgdev group and other groups ..
But i had unintentionally corrupted my group setting using …
following command

->usermod -G net slackwarebunny

But the man page of usermod says

[
-G group,[…]
A list of supplementary groups which the user is also a member
of. Each group is separated from the next by a comma, with no
intervening whitespace. The groups are subject to the same
restrictions as the group given with the -g option.<***If the user
is currently a member of a group which is not listed, the user
will be removed from the group****>
]

Next time u use that command be::careful ..

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