[Mageia-dev] Media mounting broken

Tue Jan 31 13:13:56 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 31/01/12 09:43 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 09:39 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 31/01/12 09:37 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> Should not this also work on a system running just in text mode
+>>
+>> Nope. Longer term, it would be possible as systemd tracks user logins
+>> and can launch an agent to do this job, but until then you have to do it
+>> manually. This is why urpmi integrate(s|ed?) with HAL to mount CD/DVDs
+>> when needed for installing stuff.
+>>
+>> Col
+>>
+> 
+> Hello Colin - I though HAL is no longer needed (has been removed as
+> orphan) . . .
+
+Perhaps in the last few days... not looked closely, but until recently,
+urpmi stuff was still using it for CD mounting. Perhaps it's been ported
+to udev now?
+
+But I've not used CD/DVD media for several years so I never use this
+feature anyway, and thus have had hal disabled/uninstalled for a long time.
+
+Col
+
+
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