Mount Functionality in Nautilus Gone !!

I have been using Arch sence November. Up untill yesterday, I realized that when I am in Nautilus, I have always seen my Other HD and partitions.
I could mount them by clicking on my choice, give my password, and they would be mounted. I can no longer mount my partitions through Nautilus. I can auto mount my usb drives and usb sticks. I can make a dir in media and use the terminal to mount any and all drives, but I have lost all functionality through Nautilus. I anve followed the Hal wiki, but no functionality in Nautilus.

Andru wrote:chazall1
I think trouble in hal-0.5.11-7, because I have the same trouble. Downgrade to hal-0.5.11-4 must help.
i have a fresh installation in my eeepc so i cannot downgrade. please can someone upload previous hal for 686??
Last edited by mechmg93 (2009-03-14 11:21:51)

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Permissions error while rendering to xRaid

Hello!
I'm having a problem that I can't figure out. And it's pretty urgent because I'm delivering 225 VFX shots in 9 days.
When I render a quicktime or a frame sequence out of After Effects (7 or 6.5) to my locally mounted xRaid volume, I will frequently and randomly get the llowing errors:
"After Effects error: opening file "test2_00235.tga" -- you do not have permission to open this file (-54).
(3::130)"
when I hit "ok" it's followed by:
"After effects error: cannot close a closed file. (3::5)"
If I continually requeue, it will eventually get through it (after deleting the bad frames of course). What's weird about the error is that it says it's failing while trying to READ the file that it's actually WRITEing.
I do not get this error when rendering to the drive from another machine with a different user account that has mounted the xRaid via AFS.
I am logged in as admin.
The xRaid is set to "ignore ownership on this volume" and all the permissions for all folders on the disk are set to "0 drwxrwxrwx"
I do not experience any permissions-related errors with anything outside of After Effects. All other applications and the system read and write to the volume without problems.
Here's more about my hardware setup:
I am working on:
Quad G5
OS 10.4.5
4.5GB DDR2 SDRAM
xRaid 3.5TB with the two raid sets each Raid 5 and then software Raid O on top of that. Connected with the Apple fiber channel PCI express card. Latest Firmware and Raid Admin Tools.
The problem occurs rendering with nearly any settings from AE 7x244 or AE6.5
Any advice you can offer would be great.
Ben Grossmann
VFX Supervisor, Hollow Man 2
QuadG5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

ben,
we've been having the same problem here! funny, we're the company that did the main title for hollow man 1. hollywood is a small town eh?
we use a xserve for our AE raid and recently upgraded some machines that came with 10.4 preinstalled. before the introduction of 10.4 to our farm, we had no problems. we use the built in watch folder method of rendering and render on files collected entirely on the raid. the error we get is a "write permission error" and usually happens within a 1-5 min of rendering.
we have been chasing the problem for a good month or two now and we've talked to tech support on both sides (apple and adobe) with no result. we still have the problem and now that we have a growing number of 10.4 machines our functioning farm has gone from 21nodes to 8!!
some "theories" have been that spotlight is causing it. but we cant make the AE raid volume a private non-spotlight item. (you can drag it in but it dosen't stay... even on the AE server)
another theory is that the origonal machine creating a folder to render to HAS to be a 10.4 machine to create the proper permissions. this still dosen't fully work.
also, we tried the one you tried, and ignored ownership on this volume. even though we would be losing some server automation functionality doing this, it did not help.
id like to say that its goten to the point where its mind blowingly stupid. apple being world class systems and well known for their ease and functionality should NOT BE HAVING THIS KIND OF PROBLEM or should have helped us by now.
if you find anything out please let us know. im tired of planning 2k renders a week in advance. good luck.
ken pelletier
picture mill
g5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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