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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu USB flash drive/keyfob will not automount Post 302320082 by robgwin on Wednesday 27th of May 2009 03:03:49 AM
Old 05-27-2009
Solved by restarting HAL

I just had this same issue on Ubuntu 9.04. My USB thumb drive was automounting correctly all day, and I made sure to unmount (eject) before removing it every time, but for whatever reason, it suddenly stopped mounting when I plugged it in.

Thanks to the links provided by techlinux, I learned a bit about HAL, and running "ps aux | grep hal" turned up a line like this:

hald-addon-storage: no polling because /dev/sdc is locked via HAL

With the usb drive unplugged, I restarted HAL, and that fixed the problem, hooray. However, the command is slightly different than specified in the HAL wiki. /etc/rc.d/hal doesn't exist (in fact, /etc/rc.d doesn't exist). This is the command I used:

sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart

Now.. how do we figure out what causes the polling/locked problem in the first place?
 

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HAL-IS-CALLER-LOCKED-OUT(1)				      General Commands Manual				       HAL-IS-CALLER-LOCKED-OUT(1)

NAME
hal-is-caller-locked-out - determine if a caller is locked out SYNOPSIS
hal-is-caller-locked-out [options] DESCRIPTION
hal-is-caller-locked-out determines if a specific caller is locked out of a specific D-Bus interface on a specific device. For more infor- mation about both the big picture and specific HAL properties, refer to the HAL spec which can be found in /usr/local/share/doc/hal/spec/hal-spec.html depending on the distribution. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: --udi The UDI (Unique Device Identifier) of the device object. --interface The name of the interface to check for. --caller The unique D-Bus name on the system bus of the caller. --help Print out usage. --version Print the version. RETURN VALUE
If the given process is locked out or an error occurs, this program exits with exit code 1. Otherwise it exits with exit code 0. Note that only the super user (root) or other privileged users can use this tool. BUGS
Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the HAL mailing list, see http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal on how to subscribe. SEE ALSO
hald(8), lshal(1), hal-get-property(1), hal-set-property(1), hal-find-by-property(1), hal-find-by-capability(1) AUTHOR
Written by David Zeuthen <david@fubar.dk> with a lot of help from many others. HAL-IS-CALLER-LOCKED-OUT(1)
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