Re: [gentoo-user] HAL permissions? (k3b sees no device at all)

["Andrés Becerra Sandoval" <andres.becerra@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:06 PM, <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  while installing my 64bit Gentoo on base on the configuration
>  of 32bit system I came across the problem, that k3b did not
>  see any devices.
>
>  HAD was running, butL: When "hal-devices" was executed as user "no
>  devices found" (none! not single!) was reported, while executing the
>  same command as root works fine. With strace I found that this was
>  due to permissions problems dbus has.
>
>  I "fixed" this by removing a section (found by diffing a
>  configuration of and old but working version of dbus) from
>  /etc/dbus-1/system.conf, without really knowing the impact.
>
>  Now "hal-devices" also reports to a normal user.
>
>  I added both system.conf files for your information to this email.
>
>  "org.system.conf" is the file, which was originally installed and
>  which does not work. "system.conf" is the hacked one, which work,
>  but which may do other things (currently unkonw to me) things wrong.
>
>  What is the correct way to fix permission problems
>  (or access rights) in conjunction with dbus the correct way?
>
>  Thank you for your help in advance!
>
>  Best regards,
>  mcc
>
>
>

Hello,

I had the same problem before migrating my kernel to use ATA instead of
deprecated IDE support for disks and cd/dvd drives. After migration,
everything is working just fine.

-- 
  Andrés Becerra Sandoval

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