usb flash drive insertion causes hal to die

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sat Nov 29 11:03:51 PST 2008


On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 10:30 -0800, caindie wrote:
> freebsd 7.1 pre release 1- cvs upgrade from 7.0 beta 2 (don't ask) - 
> 
> gnome2-lite and all dependencies, except below, installed from ports
> portinstall -R gnome2-lite
> 
> ORBIit2, gstreamer-ffmpeg failed compile or configure - installed 7.0 stable
> packages 
> with pkg_add -r etc - did pkgdb -F for dependencies on earlier - minor
> number- versions of installed ports. 
> 
> enabled dbus and hal in /etc/rc.conf
> edited /etc/fstab to add proc and comment out /cdrom
> 
> hal and dbus are running on boot.
> 
> cd automounted by hal - ok
> 
> insert usb flash drive - no response
> 
> no messages in gnome
> 
> /var/log/messages (just turned over) has the following after usb removed
> 
> Nov 29 10:05:55 venice kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): lost device
> Nov 29 10:05:55 venice kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:G0:E0O:M0_)L:A BrEeLmo:v
> iLnagb edle vmiscdeo sefnst/r y r
> Nov 29 10:05:55 venice kernel: emoved.
> Nov 29 10:05:55 venice kernel: umass0: detached
> 
> I was able to mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt for drive within gnome after I
> determined hal was not running though dbus was running. 

See http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html#q4 on how to report
problems with hal.

Joe

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