Hal 0.5.14-1 does not mount some usb drives correctly

Hi folks
When I try to mount a USB hard disk (with KDE 4.3.4), it tries to mount it at some wrong path used by another USB hard disk. Or I have to mount it as root, or even as root it still doesn't work right... pfff I'm really disappointed by this showstopper...
For example, I own a LaCie hard disk (/media/disk), a Iomega one (/media/IOMEGA) and a LaCie mobile disk (no power cable, /media/MobileDisk):
- When I try to mount the Iomega one, it works fine, as normal user;
- When I try to mount the LaCie one, it fails, independently of the fact that the Iomega drive is mounted or not, with the following message:
Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:///media/IOMEGA does not exist.
Looks like it wants to mount the LaCie one where the Iomega one is/should be mounted...
- When I connect the LaCie hard disk, the directory /media/MobileDisk
is created, instead of /media/disk
, and when as root I try to manually mount the hard disk, it says:
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sdb1': No such file or directory
Maybe there's some erroneous entry in some cache or data used by hal/dbus? I don't know how they work and how to activate their logging systems and then where to find the logs...
Maybe there's a way to simply completely wipe out hal/dbus/consolekit/policykit/... configuration data without having to reinstall the complete system?
I have:
hal 0.5.14-1
dbus-core 1.2.16-1
dbus 1.2.16-1
dbus-glib 0.82-2
dbus-python 0.83.0-2
I start KDM using /etc/inittab, as described in the wiki. I've put "/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon" in /etc/rc.local and have modified /etc/inittab so that it starts kdm with: "x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/ck-launch-session /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon"!
Is this the right setup, equivalent to the one with xinitrc?
The same setup works fine on my laptop.
I've got the impression that hal/dbus/... confounds my drives and does not know where to mount them...
Downgrading to hal 0.5.13-idontrememberwhatcifer does not solve the issue, the system is kept up to date with "pacman -Syu" about once a day and it still doesn't work...
Some clue?
Thanks and happy new year

OK something happened that I can't explain...
I just controlled about all files related to hal/dbus/mounting etc and, I don't know why, all devices I've mounted had a corresponding line in fstab... really weird.
I juste deleted those lines, and, well, mounting seems to work again
So this issue is solved
And finally Arch Linux is again my favorite distro
Last edited by yannick555 (2010-01-03 14:37:55)

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