HAL related system crash

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Simon Barner píše v út 09. 01. 2007 v 09:01 +0100:
> 
>> yesterday I updated to KDE 3.5.5 with HAL. 
>>
>> Mounting my CDROM in Konqueror worked fine, but after clicking on the
>> umount, eject and the CDROM icon (I guess in that order), the whole system
>> crashed with a page fault (see below for a backtrace).
>>
>> I am not sure if this has to do anything with HAL at all, or if this is due
>> to a bad CDROM media, but in any case, something needs to be done.
> 
> Looks like you somehow managed to remove the media before the filesystem
> could be unmounted.
> 
>> #7  0xc0469cc6 in g_io_request (bp=0xc5b1dc60, cp=0xc61c5e40) at /usr/src/sys/geom/geom_io.c:275
>>         pp = (struct g_provider *) 0x0
>> #8  0xc046c21d in g_vfs_strategy (bo=0x1, bp=0xd90a8738) at /usr/src/sys/geom/geom_vfs.c:106
>>         cp = (struct g_consumer *) 0xc61c5e40
>>         bip = (struct bio *) 0x1
> 
> I'm no expert but isn't hal supposed to prevent you from ejecting the
> media before unmount is completed?

We removed forced-unmounting functionality due to FreeBSD bugs.  We
document that on the list of GNOME known issues.  That said, unmounting
CD-ROMs via Nautilus in GNOME has never triggered a panic for me.  Maybe
KDE is doing something illegal.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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