[vox-tech] why does HAL hate me

[David Rosenstrauch]

I ran into this too recently.  Problem seems to be an issue of your user 
being a member of the right groups.  On my distro (Arch) once I added 
myself to the groups "optical" and "storage" and then (important!) 
either logged out or rebooted (I can't remember which) the problem went 
away.

Depdending on what distro you're using, the group names may be different 
(e.g., I think Debian might have a group "hal" that you might need to 
add yourself to) but once you get yourself added to the right groups 
(and reboot!) the problem should go away.

BTW, there's some info to be found by googling on the text of that Hal 
error message.

HTH,

DR


Paul wrote:
> I just reinstalled hal to see if I could get it to work for me this time
> (last time I found that purging hal made everything work right again).
> Now, when I try to read a cd I get this message.
> 
> "A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this
> message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected
> message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount"
> error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")"
> 
> I think it says that I haven't been anointed by some elite being to
> receive messages from my cd drive. I sure that someone out there could
> explain why it is good policy not let me receive messages from my cd
> drive but I would like to get it working.
> 
> I think I have three choices:
> 
> 1. apt-get --purge remove HAL (it worked the first time)
> 
> 2. find all the HAL config files and change all "deny" to "allow". This
> probably misses the point but try understanding the HAL config file(s).
> If you have HAL installed take a look at /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf - 
> pure gibberish
> 
> 3 Ask somebody who knows what they're doing.
> 
> Somebody - Anybody - HELP
> 
> paul