ports/131696: hald core dumps make X11 unusable

[Bernard Steiner]

>Number:         131696
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       hald core dumps make X11 unusable
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Feb 15 12:10:01 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bernard Steiner
>Release:        7.1-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD grimma 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #13: Wed Feb 11 21:44:14 CET 2009     bs at grimma:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GRIMMA  amd64
>Description:
I have several SD cards used in cameras, all of them FAT-formatted in said cameras and later labeled so that hald wouldn't dump core because a label containing white space makes hald dump core (which, I might add, makes hald a bad joke in itself).
I understand recently hald appears to be a requirement for running X11.
For reasons unbeknownst to me, at least one of the SD cards now makes hald crash yet again:

(console)
da0: 963MB (1973248 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 963C)
GEOM: da0: partition 1 does not start on a track boundary.
GEOM: da0: partition 1 does not end on a track boundary.
GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0s1 is msdosfs/SD1GB_01.
Feb 15 12:45:44 grimma kernel: pid 1242 (hald), uid 560: exited on signal 11

# fdisk da0
******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=963 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)

parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=963 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 6 (0x06),(Primary 'big' DOS (>= 32MB))
    start 253, size 1972483 (963 Meg), flag 0
        beg: cyl 0/ head 4/ sector 2;
        end: cyl 978/ head 17/ sector 17
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>

Note that I DO NOT HAVE CONTROL OVER HOW THE CAMERA MAKES UP THE FAT ON THE CARD and I will thus keep my fingers off the FAT.
Effectively, the requirement for hald to get X11 makes my beloved system unsuitable for dealing with SD cards.
>How-To-Repeat:
Insert card as described above
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: