[kubuntu-devel] Re: [kubuntu-devel] media:/ problems : what is a

[Donatas G.]

Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 04:08:04PM +0200, Donatas G. wrote:
>> Yes, two ways have been proposed to change that behaviour in
>> kubuntu-users thread on media, both worked for me.
> 
> Which were they?
> 

Here are those two:

Steven Hellingh wrote:
> > I've read many comments about media:/ problems. One of them is that
they
> > aren't showing all partitions or removable media etc. This can be
solved by
> > "sudo adduser hal disk". Don't know if this solves more problems but
try it
> > out.

may well work. I did it a different way, described in this thread, and
it worked:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=79204&page=2&highlight=media

I will quote it:

==========================================

Re: media:/ nothing there, except cd

I found a temporary (I guess) solution.
I uncommented the last line of /etc/default/hal

This is the result:

_________

# This will run the hal daemon as normal user 'hal' with some additional
# privileges; This will not execute callout scripts as root (so fstab-sync
# won't work) and makes hal unable to do filesystem type autodetection for
# non-removable devices.
DAEMON_OPTS=

# This will run the hal daemon as user root
DAEMON_OPTS=--retain-privileges
_________

==========================================