[kde-freebsd] Eject problem in KDE4

[Andy Fawcett]

On Friday 08 August 2008 16:52:09 Kris Moore wrote:
> Several of our testers have reported an interesting problem we've
> seen in KDE4 here, and I wanted to run it by you guys to see if
> anybody had any answers. The problem is that when you mount a CD via
> Dolphin / KDE, and then try to eject it, the eject / unmount never
> takes place. Instead this HAL error shows up at the bottom of
> dolphin:
>
> org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure: Error while get
> volume.ignore
>
> Do you guys see this behavior as well?

It's a hald/policykitd problem. I've not got to the bottom of it yet, 
but you need to make sure the user has permissions to mount/eject in 
hal, and also that the device is marked as "not ignore".

Might be worth checking the hal FAQ (see the fbsd/gnome website)

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