no automount; hybernate

[Robby Workman]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:20:11 +0100
Joost Kremers <joostkremers at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> hi list,
> 
> i've recently installed xfce 4.6.0 (slackware 12.2, package provided
> by robby workman) and am running into a few small issues, two of
> which i'd like to ask about here:
> 
> * on my eeepc, which has a fresh install of slack 12.2 and xfce 4.6.0,
>   automounting does not work. thunar-volman-plugin is installed and
>   configured to automount removable devices, and my user is a member
> of the plugdev group. still, nothing happens when i insert a usb
> drive, usb stick or sd card. i can mount devices manually, though.
> 
>   since i have no idea where to look to troubleshoot this (i'm not
> even sure how automounting works exactly...) i'd appreciate some tips
> on what to check/look for.
> 
> * when i quit xfce, i get the logout window, which has the options
>   hybernate and suspend active. if i select one of them, i get an
> error message saying "suspend and hybernate are only available
> through HAL, which is unavailable". hald is running, however. (this
> occurs on my home machine, which runs slackware 12.2 updated from
> 12.1, but also on said eeepc.)


Hi Joost,

We're a bit behind on the HAL package update needed for all of this to
play together nicely in -current, but since you're on 12.2, it wouldn't
matter anyway.  I really should update my site with a reference to what
I'm about to write... :-)

Place the contents of this file:
  http://slackware.com/~rworkman/hal.conf.txt
in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf and make sure your user account is in
the "power" group.

For thunar-volman, make sure you have to 0.3.80 version installed from
my repo (as opposed to the older 0.2 or whatever version for
xfce-4.4.x), and then be sure your user is in the "plugdev" group.

Easiest thing to do after all that is to reboot, but leaving X and
restarting the messagebus service, logging out completely, then logging
back in should make all this work as expected.

 -RW
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