retitle 290653 Cannot get harddisk properties, because of dropped privileges
severity 290653 minor
thanks,
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 07:24:01PM +0100, Jérôme Lodewyck wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.4.5-1
>
> When started via the dbus init script, HAL cannot find names and some
> properties of my harddisk's volumes. (lshal_init_script attached)
> If I kill hald and restart it by hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes, everything
> works well (lshal_no_daemon attached).
That's a side effect of having hal not running as root. When you start it
manually you probably run it as root, while when started with the initscript it
drops priveledged.
As you've seen i've made this a minor bug, the problem should be fixed in the
next major version of hal (0.6.x)..
Sjoerd
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