[Thunar-dev] Mounting fails due to no available org.freedesktop.Hal services

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:40:10 +0100, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
>> Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>>> But: Whenever I start thunar with a running hald (sorry, my last
>>> mail contained a lot of hald-* processes, but not "hald" itself)
>>> and try to mount one of the devices, I get this:
>>>
>>> jannis at nebelsee ~ $ thunar
>>> Thunar: Failed to connect to the D-BUS session bus: Failed to
>>> connect to socket /tmp/dbus-TTavTtFLD4: Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt
>> D-Bus system daemon not running.
>>
>>> And after that, "hald" is not running anymore (but the helper apps
>>> are, as listed my last mail). Weird, isn't it?
>> Well, either a problem with D-Bus or a problem with HAL.
> 
> Probably, yes. It's just that I can't really verify what's wrong. I've
> D-BUS 1.0.1, D-BUS GLib bindings 0.72 and HAL 0.5.8.1 installed on my
> system (Lunar Linux, so none of the original config files - like
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf - were modified).
> 
> Now if I start D-BUS and HAL and try to mount something, I get this
> "... is not provided by any .service files" error message. After that,
> hald isn't running anymore. This is what happens as root. Now if I set
> up D-BUS to give normal users access to some HAL-related D-BUS
> services, like you suggested to Samuel in his bug report, I get exactly
> the same error.
> 
> I know the package versions are pretty much bleeding edge as Lunar
> isn't bound to fixed package release cycles, but nonetheless I'd love
> to be able to get some more debugging information out of
> Thunar/HAL/D-BUS to find a fix for this annoyance. After all, I
> remember that it worked before exo-mount was introduced.

HAL is probably crashing in the Mount method. Run hald with --daemon=no
--verbose=yes.

> - Jannis

Benedikt