On 10/18/07, Guy Fraser <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was not able to get FC7 to automatically mount any of the > USB hard drives I have been using for years. That doesn't make sense since FC7 hasn't been up for a year, and your USB drives can't be that special. Has this been on just one machine? > I Googled numerous times to find a solution, and the only thing > I could determine was that 'hald' was not working properly. I > checked and it was not running.:^( I Googled some more and was > not able to find anything, and the logs were not indicating why > 'hald' was not running. I perused the init scripts and > attempted to start it with them, but it kept inicating that it > failed, but with no reason. I started 'hald' manually and it ran > but still did not automount the drives. I decided to try to > disable SElinux from boot by appending selinux=0 to the grub > command, and that worked, 'hald' was running and when attaching > the USB drives they mounted as expected. I have greped the logs > and still can not find any errors, relating to 'hald'. I have > not run SElinux in enforcing mode since I installed FC5, and > that was a disaster until I set it to permissive. SElinux is > like black magic wizardry to me, and although I understand > why it is a good thing to have and use, I have not been able > to take the enormous amount of time it will take to figure out > how to manage or debug it. I am quite surprised that the problem > with 'hald' has not come up before. If you're going to be just plugging random USB drives, you're likely using a desktop. Just a firewall may be enough for you. use system-config-secuirtylevel to disable Selinux. > I have never had any luck with bugzilla, and do not intend to > waste my time again with it. That's not very helpful. Do you have any logs with the issue at least? > If others are having the same problem > I am and they wish to file a bugzilla, all my best regards to them. > All I can offer at this time is a workaround to the problem, which > is to disable SElinux, but setting it to permissive may also work. Do you have any evidence we can work with? -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
