hald and strange error messages

[Zahemszky Gábor]

Hi!

After updating my system, and enabling hald (no config, only the default
settings), I've got so many strange SCSI errors. With some limited
tests, I've found, that's because of hald. If I start  it, got SCSI (and
NTP?) errors. After stopping it, errors go away. Here is a snippet from
messages (I've generated "Starting/stopping hald" messages with logger):

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Oct 18 09:44:41 Picasso root: Starting hald
Oct 18 09:45:06 Picasso kernel: ahc0:A:2: Missed busfree. Lastphase =
0xe0, Curphase = 0x0
Oct 18 09:45:11 Picasso kernel: ahc0:A:2: Missed busfree. Lastphase =
0xe0, Curphase = 0xe4
Oct 18 09:45:44 Picasso last message repeated 5 times
Oct 18 09:46:05 Picasso last message repeated 3 times
Oct 18 09:46:06 Picasso root: Stopping hald
Oct 18 09:46:12 Picasso kernel: ahc0:A:2: Missed busfree. Lastphase =
0xe0, Curphase = 0xe4
Oct 18 09:46:47 Picasso ntpd[660]: kernel time sync disabled 2041
Oct 18 09:49:27 Picasso root: Starting hald
Oct 18 09:49:41 Picasso kernel: ahc0:A:2: Missed busfree. Lastphase =
0xe0, Curphase = 0xe4
Oct 18 09:50:05 Picasso last message repeated 4 times
Oct 18 09:50:05 Picasso login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv2
Oct 18 09:50:12 Picasso kernel: ahc0:A:2: Missed busfree. Lastphase =
0xe0, Curphase = 0xe4
Oct 18 09:50:47 Picasso last message repeated 5 times
Oct 18 09:52:40 Picasso last message repeated 16 times
Oct 18 09:52:43 Picasso root: Stopped hald
Oct 18 09:52:47 Picasso kernel: ahc0:A:2: Missed busfree. Lastphase =
0xe0, Curphase = 0xe4
Oct 18 09:55:22 Picasso ntpd[660]: kernel time sync enabled 2001
Oct 18 10:02:19 Picasso root: Starting hald
Oct 18 10:02:28 Picasso kernel: ahc0:A:2: Missed busfree. Lastphase =
0xe0, Curphase = 0xe4
Oct 18 10:02:59 Picasso last message repeated 5 times
Oct 18 10:04:10 Picasso last message repeated 10 times
Oct 18 10:04:15 Picasso root: Stopped hald
Oct 18 10:04:17 Picasso kernel: ahc0:A:2: Missed busfree. Lastphase =
0xe0, Curphase = 0xe4

Bye, Zahy < Gabor at Zahemszky dot HU >

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