[OpenIndiana-discuss] automount does not work!

[Gary Mills]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 08:03:12PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On Solaris & OI, the Xorg server relies on hal to let it know when USB
> input devices have been hotplugged so it can attach to mice, keyboards,
> tablets, etc.  It should not interfere with the mounting of USB storage
> devices.

I'm focusing on a child process called hald-addon-storage now.  There
are four of them on a BE where automount works, and none of them on a
current BE where it doesn't work.  The process has a socket to hald
and a door to syseventd.  Each hald-addon-storage process also
monitors a storage device.  I don't know the plumbing in detail, but I
assume that without the process, hald will not be aware of changes to
USB devices.  That is the problem I'm seeing.


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