FS#24108 - [k3b] Doesn't work without hal

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by x33a (x33a) - Thursday, 05 May 2011, 04:50 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Thursday, 05 May 2011, 09:45 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: Well a few days ago i removed hal, and pacman didn't complain about any package being dependent on it. Today i started k3b and it complained about not being able to find any optical drive. It started fine but it's useless if it can't burn a disk, as no drive shows up.

Here's the error message:

No optical drive found.
K3b did not find any optical device in your system.
Solution: Make sure HAL daemon is running, it is used by K3b for finding devices.

So, hal should be listed as a dependency for k3b.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

K3b
Version 2.0.2
Using KDE Development Platform 4.6.2 (4.6.2)

Steps to reproduce: Remove hal from your system, start k3b and see the above mentioned error.
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Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Thursday, 05 May 2011, 09:45 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  k3b needs dbus, not hal
Comment by Laurent Carlier (lordheavy) - Thursday, 05 May 2011, 06:38 GMT
Works for me without hal installed or running
Comment by x33a (x33a) - Thursday, 05 May 2011, 07:59 GMT
Well, when i installed hal and started hal daemon, it started dbus daemon as well. I got curious, and stopped hal, but let dbus continue running. k3b started fine, and didn't complain. I saw that dbus started udisks-daemon and upowerd. So, it seems hal isn't needed, and even dbus with udisks does the job.

@ laurent carlier, you must at least be running dbus daemon?
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 05 May 2011, 08:50 GMT
dbus is a requirement these days.

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