HAL issues

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 7/27/11 6:45 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Give this patch a shot.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/patch-hald_freebsd_hf-storage.c
>>>
>>> Thanks, Joe. That did it. All three file systems now mount as they should.
>>> Please feel free to commit. I'm sure that others have hit this, too, although
>>> it is a rather odd case.
>>> --
>>> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired
>>> E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com
>>>
>>
>>
>> OK. It looks like a race condition of some sort. I'll send the verbose
>> hald log with annotations shortly, but I can confirm that the version
>> I was running after applying your patch and the one in ports are
>> identical.
>>
>> If I plug in the disk and start Gnome, all is well. (Yea!)
>> If I unmount the disk file systems, unplug the disk, and plug it back
>> in, nothing happens, though hald does log a lot and clearly sees the
>> insertion.
>> Then I do an 'fsck_msdosfs /dev/da0s2' and both drives mount, but I
>> have two errors, one my favorite "unknown error" and the other that
>> the first FS can't be mounted. But it is. Both are mounted, but I
>> can't unmount the first FS (da0s1) because no entry was made in
>> /media/.hal-mtab for that FS. The other one unmountes fine and, if I
>> manually add an entry for the first FS, it unmounts, as well, but
>> reports failure because it says that it could not delete the directory
>> (/media/MUSICBACKUP). It also does not seem to delete the entry from
>> /media/.hal-mtab.
>>
>> I will shortly annotate the verbose output from hald and send it off,
>> but I don't have time ATM.
>> --
>> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired
>> E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com
> 
> Joe,
> 
> It's taken a while, but here is verbose output from hald showing the problems.
> Seems like I need to trigger a re-taste to get hald to proceed, but there are
> still issues with the contents of /media/.hal-mtab.
> 
> The attached log is annotated to explain what is triggering the output.
> 
> Hope this helps! Let me know if other information would help.

Try http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/patch-hald_freebsd_hf-storage.c

Joe

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