[Bug 27323] Re: hal's automount_enabled_hint causes disk to beep every few seconds

[Akkana Peck]

Inserted media aren't automounted even with the two hal devices polling; running hald makes no difference I've been able to notice.

Is automounting dependent on the gnome desktop doing something? I've done a lot of this testing without any desktop running -- in fact, on the Dapper Flight 6 I've been using to test this, running the desktop hangs the machine (no keyboard response, no network response, no flashing keyboard lights, have to unplug the power cord and restart) about two times out of three, so I had to disable it. The hald polling and beeping happens whether or not I run the gnome desktop.

The /dev/sda device is created correctly and mounts correctly whether or not the hald processes are running, or indeed even if I aptitude purge the whole hald package.

Is there really never going to be a way to disable polling multiple times a second? Is removing hald the only solution for people who don't want all this polling and aren't getting any benefit from it?

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hal's automount_enabled_hint causes disk to beep every few seconds
https://launchpad.net/bugs/27323