HAL (HEAD) or the kernel started misbehaving with my DVD drive and wouldn't release the disc. So I rebooted. When I come back up I try to mount the DVD again and I can't because: mount_point = 'Personal Data, May 15, 2006' mount_fstype = '' mount_options = 'uid=729 ' trying dir /media/Personal Data, May 15, 2006 15:49:21.662 [I] hald_dbus.c:3175: Client to local_server was disconnected 15:49:21.662 [I] hald_dbus.c:3185: unregistered /opt/gnome/libexec/hal-storage-mount exited 15:49:21.670 [I] hald_dbus.c:2637: No more methods in queue 15:49:21.670 [I] hald_dbus.c:2682: failed with 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.MountPointNotAvailable' 'The mount point '/media/Personal Data, May 15, 2006' is already occupied' sudo ls -al /media/Personal\ Data\,\ May\ 15\,\ 2006/ Password: total 12 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 16 09:34 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 16 09:34 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 16 09:34 .created-by-hal The error message seems to come from hal-storage-mount.c when the mount point exists and is requested explicitly. Maybe in this case where it is clear that HAL created the mountpoint and that the mountpoint is empty that HAL should just remove the directory and continue?
This should be fixed with the latest fixes in CVS and the scripts section. On startup of HAL hal-system-storage-cleanup-mountpoints should be called and cleanup all by hal created mountpoints.
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