hald broken with USB drives since 8.0-BETA2

Greg Rivers gcr+freebsd-current at tharned.org
Sat Aug 8 19:12:28 UTC 2009


On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Attilio Rao wrote:
> 2009/8/8 Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org>:
>> On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Attilio Rao wrote:
>>
>>> 2009/8/8 Greg Rivers <gcr+freebsd-current at tharned.org>:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Attilio Rao wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 2009/8/8 Greg Rivers <gcr+freebsd-current at tharned.org>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've had to disable hald on my Acer One netbook since 8.0-BETA2. 
>>>>>> Now hald seems to work only the first time a USB drive is attached. 
>>>>>> The drive is detected and mounted, and can be unmounted and 
>>>>>> remounted via kde3's media interface.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But if I unmount the drive and detach it, hald wedges the USB buss. 
>>>>>> No further USB connections (any device, not just disks) are 
>>>>>> detected, and hald becomes unkillable.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Has anyone else experienced this?  Any suggestions for 
>>>>>> troubleshooting?
>>>>>
>>>>> After installing BETA2 did you further update to -CURRENT or simply 
>>>>> used BETA2 system?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've been tracking -CURRENT.  I last rebuilt kernel and world on 
>>>> August 2nd.  Sorry for not being clear about that.
>>>>
>>>> I removed and rebuilt all ports from source after the July 19 shared 
>>>> library version bump, and I rebuilt hald and dbus after the August 
>>>> 2nd kernel/world update.
>>>
>>> Did you include r196037?
>>> If you did, can you try remove it and rebuild anything and experience 
>>> the problem again?
>>
>> You can also see this thread from June:
>>
>>  http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1494406+0+archive/2009/freebsd-current/20090607.freebsd-current
>
> Oh, so it should not be the newbus locking patch.
>

Right, r196037 was committed on August 2nd, and I've seen this problem since
~July 20.

-- 
Greg Rivers


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