[kde-linux] Hotplug /HAL not working after KDE 3.5.4. upgrade on suse 10.0

[markus2 at bayern-mail.de]

Hi,

I just upgraded my 32-bit Suse 10.0 system to KDE 3.5.4 via Yast, using the
officially provided rpms.

Now, the automatic mounting of usb-devices stopped working, despite the fact
that everthing seems to be fine: KDE seems to recognize HAL (the checkbox in the
control center is checked).

However, externel usb-devices (here: my mp3-player) are not automatically
mounted and there is no message box popping up. All I get is an entry in
/var/log/messages:


  Aug  7 21:10:08 linux kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi3,
channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Aug  7 21:10:08 linux kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi3, channel 0, id
0, lun 0,  type 0
Aug  7 21:10:08 linux kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
Aug  7 21:10:09 linux hal-subfs-mount[11283]: SYMLINKS::
disk/by-id/usb-iriver_MassStorage_Disc
disk/by-path/usb-iRiverLimited-IFP800HIGHSPEED:0:0:0
Aug  7 21:10:09 linux hal-subfs-mount[11283]: MOUNT_POINT:: /media/usbdisk
Aug  7 21:10:09 linux hal-subfs-mount[11283]: MOUNTPOINT:: /media/usbdisk
Aug  7 21:10:09 linux hal-subfs-mount[11283]: Collected mount options and
Called(8192) /bin/mount -t subfs -o
fs=floppyfss,sync,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,utf8=true /dev/sdb "/media/usbdisk"
Aug  7 21:10:09 linux hal-subfs-mount[11283]: By hald-subfs-mount created dir
/media/usbdisk got removed.


Is there a way to restore the old (KDE 3.5.2 ?) behaviour? (other than downgrading)


-Markus