On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:06 PM, <meino.cra...@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
