pcmanfm - does not trigger hal startup

[Iain Buclaw]

Since hal service daemon has been removed from system startup - pcmanfm should try to connect to hal, even if no service is running.

The current implementation in Lucid (and prior) is that it backs down too soon. What it should really be doing is continuing anyway, where it will error out if it truly can't get a hal service running.

Package: pcmanfm
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 2332
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.5.2+svn20091029-1ubuntu2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libgamin0 | libfam0, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.23.5), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0), libhal-storage1 (>= 0.5.8.1), libhal1 (>= 0.5.8.1), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.10), libx11-6 (>= 0), gamin, shared-mime-info, desktop-file-utils, dbus, hal

[Iain Buclaw (iainb)]

problem found to be in pcmanfm itself.

[Iain Buclaw (iainb)]

Attaching patch.

[Iain Buclaw (iainb)]

Alternatively, see no harm in just removing the check altogether, as if hal is not present, it *should* error out later when calling libhal_device_property_watch_all().

Regards

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Thanks Iain for the patch.

A package including the fix will be available in my PPA : https://launchpad.net/~gilir/+archive/updates

Please test if it fixes the bug.

Thanks.

[Tomasz Rzepecki (nub)]

i tried the pcmanfm package from the repo, both versions, and neither seems to fix the issue (the devices are still not shown in places menu).

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Oops, I made a mistake in the package. the ~ppa2 version should include the fix.

[Tomasz Rzepecki (nub)]

ok - the issue i noticed seems to have been fixed. most devices do show up in places menu. this does not seem to be the case for an usb drive i plugged in (which does show up in nautilus...), but that's probably a different bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pcmanfm - 0.5.2+svn20091029-1ubuntu3

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pcmanfm (0.5.2+svn20091029-1ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/patch/01-hal-init.dpatch:
   - Try to connect to hal, even if no service is running. Thanks Iain Bucław
     for the patch. (LP: #556080)
 -- Julien Lavergne <email address hidden> Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:45:21 +0200

[Djo (tueurdecorneilles)]

I use pcmanfm (0.5.2+svn20091029-1ubuntu3) lucid from the official repo and I still need to write 'hald --daemon=yes' to /etc/rc.local to make automounting fonctional. Before that, devices were sometimes detected but when I tried to mount the device, "The folder does not exist" error messahe was displayed.

[Iain Buclaw (iainb)]

@Djo, what type of session are you running? And what applications autostart when you login?

Regards