[k3b] k3b hal backend not finding devices

Riccardo Magliocchetti riccardo.magliocchetti at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 16:34:07 UTC 2010


Markus ha scritto:
> Am Dienstag 06 April 2010 14:05:22 schrieb Riccardo Magliocchetti:
>> In the bug it is suggested to use policykit instead of hal as backend.
>> Would you reccomend that too as safer choice for a distribution?
> 
> I've read roughly through the bug report and frankly I don't get it.
> HAL is an abstraction layer for hardware (hence its name) and PolicyKit is 
> used for user authentication which K3b already uses through KAuth

Ok i don't argue with that, so i've digged the issue a bit more:
- solid does not see the device
- hal does not see the device
- kernel sees the device (tried both 2.6.30 and 2.6.32)

So it looks it's not a k3b issue, sorry for the noise :)

thanks,
riccardo



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