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

[Martin Pitt]

> Is automounting dependent on the gnome desktop doing something?

Yes, it must be running (specificall, gnome-volume-manager needs to be
running) to actually automount stuff. Hal does not mount itself, it
just provides information about the hardware.

> 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. 

Ouch, that sounds really serious; are these bugs known in Malone?

> 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.

Yes, hal is just required for automatically mounting them.

> Is there really never going to be a way to disable polling multiple
> times a second? 

There is a way, you need to disable the polling in
e. g. /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi, but it's not really user
friendly to do that.

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