After logout session, DVD volume is still mounted, this prevents next logged users to unmount it due the following error: Error org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy. hal-storage-can-unmount-volumes-mounted-by-others refused uid 1000 My emerge --info: Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r1 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz Timestamp of tree: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:16:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -msse3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -msse3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ " LANG="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_ALL="es_ES.UTF-8" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi aim alsa ape asf audiofile avahi avi bash-completion bcmath beagle bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 bzlib cairo caps cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrparanoia cli cpdflib cracklib cross crypt css cups curl curlwrappers daap dbus divx4linux djvu dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emerald encode escreen evo exif fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp galago gb gcj gd gif gimp gimpprint glitz glut glx gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hddtemp iconv imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java jikes jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility latex lcms lesstif libnotify lm_sensors logrotate mac mad mbox midi mikmod mime ming mmap mmx mmxext mng modplug mono motif mp3 mpeg mpi mplayer mudflap musepack musicbrainz nas ncurses nethack nls nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp opnegl pam pcmcia pcre pdf pdflib perl pic png pnp posix ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection reiserfs rpm rtc ruby scanner sdl seamonkey session slang slp smp sndfile sockets socks5 speex spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg syslog tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora threads tiff timidity tk truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd videos vim vorbis wifi win32codecs wma wmf wxwindows x86 xattr xcomposite xine xml xorg xpm xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" DVB_CARDS=" " ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always
Why should hal do such things? o_O Which desktop environment are you using?
(In reply to comment #1) > Why should hal do such things? o_O Which desktop environment are you using? > I have explained it in Description: After logout session, DVD volume is still mounted, this prevents next logged users to unmount it due the following error: Error org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy. hal-storage-can-unmount-volumes-mounted-by-others refused uid 1000 For example, under Ubuntu, DVD is unmounted when user logouts preventing this problem I am using gnome, but with KDE, DVD is also left mounted Thanks :-)
Eh, and why's this exactly a hal job, and not gnome-session one?
(In reply to comment #3) > Eh, and why's this exactly a hal job, and not gnome-session one? > I am not a hal expert :-/, but seems that gnome-session is "logouting" properly and no process seems "hanged" after logout. I have also seen that some /media/.hal-mtab* files aren't being removed But this could also be a gnome problem, I don't know Sorry if I can't give you more info, but I don't know much more about this :-(
This actually sounds more like a policy problem than anything else. Anyone logged in on console should be able to unmount DVDs, no matter who mounted them, in my opinion. (well, maybe not if root mounted them...) I'm wouldn't expect my DVD/CD to unmount when I log out. Obviously expectations vary from person to person, but I feel the real falure here is not being able to unmount later. (note: it's not gnome-session's responsibility, no matter what. Nautilus, maybe, but definitely not gnome-session.)
(In reply to comment #5) > I'm wouldn't expect my DVD/CD to unmount when I log out. Obviously > expectations vary from person to person, but I feel the real falure here is not > being able to unmount later. > Being able of always unmount DVD would be enough for me :-), but I don't know what advantage would have leave DVDs mounted when user logouts :-/
Seems a gnome problem. I have tried again with KDE (maybe yesterday I left DVD mounted by gnome, sorry) and DVD is unmounted when user logs out from KDE session
re comment #6: I expect my removable disks to be mounted when they're in the machine, not just when I'm logged in, that's all.
(In reply to comment #8) > re comment #6: I expect my removable disks to be mounted when they're in the > machine, not just when I'm logged in, that's all. > OK :-)
As Jakub said, HAL doesn't "do" anything, it merely provides a mechanism. The culprits in this mounting haze are g-v-m and nautilus (the latter is clearly taking over the former...) So if anything, a bug should be filed against nautilus. However, this is not a bug, it's just the way nautilus works today. You should open a bug in Gnome's bugzilla to see how auto unmounting could be integrated into nautilus. Thanks
