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From: Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: CD-ROM mounting
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:36:29
Message-Id: 1217529348.765.22.camel@vishnu.fmp.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] Re: CD-ROM mounting by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 So where is this configured? I have /etc/hal/, which contains hald.conf
2 and /etc/conf.d/hald. Both of these look pretty much like placeholder
3 files and don't say anything about how CDs should be mounted. Where
4 does this configuration live?
5
6 On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 08:38 +0000, Duncan wrote:
7 > AFAIK, it's not udev doing this, but hal. Thus your changes to udev
8 > wouldn't have the desired effect.
9 >
10 > I ran into something similar with k3b. Hal used to work fine, using its
11 > defaults only if there was no fstab entry for that device, using the
12 > fstab entry if there was. Now hal screws things up by insisting on doing
13 > things /its/ way, despite a perfectly valid system config, and k3b looks
14 > in the system configured spot while hal's putting it somewhere else.
15 > There's an open bug on k3b, but I really think it should be on hal since
16 > hal's what's breaking a previously working config by insisting on doing
17 > things its own way instead of following the otherwise perfectly fine
18 > system config.
19
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[gentoo-desktop] Re: CD-ROM mounting Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>