[27094] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.x: haldaemon fails to run
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jun 27 16:26:44 2007
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:26:33 -0400
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> hald fails to run on 9.4.x machines because the haldaemon user is
> missing, because the passwd file we install doesn't contain it.
A little more data on this:
Yes, Nautilus is failing to auto-mount CDs on Athena machines.
hald is now running on Athena machines, as root. Adding a haldaemon
user and rebooting does not seem to change who it gets run as.
Adding a dbus user causes dbus to run, but still doesn't get Nautilus
to auto-mount CDs. So there's some other factor there which I haven't
figured out.
I've been told that some Athena machines lack /etc/fstab entries for
/mnt/cdrom. My test machine does have such an entry, which allows
users to "mount /mnt/cdrom". If some machines are lacking that entry,
that may also be an impediment to auto-mounting CDs, even if we fix
the passwd file problem and the other unknown factor.
