Curious behavior of HAL in 2.18

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:21:40 -0400
> 
> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 08:48 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> > > I just tried this on 7-CURRENT amd64 with up-to-date ports.  I do not
> > > see this behavior.  What other HAL configuration have you done (e.g.
> > > extra fdi files)?  Can you try to isolate which process is trying to
> > > mount these file systems (e.g. using ktrace or truss)?  It is probably
> > > happening via hald, but something is telling hald to do this.  My guess
> > > is gnome-volume-manager.
> > > 
> > > Joe
> > 
> > I don't think that this is relevant, but the file I was using as the
> > backing store for the md device is about 2GB in size and is a valid ufs
> > device. 
> 
> I tried with the 6.2-RELEASE boot.flp image since I don't have large
> file system images lying around.  I don't see how the size of the file
> is relevant since only one md device node will be created.
> 
> > 
> > I have no idea what an fdi file is. The only hal configuration I have
> > done is to hal-storage-fixed-mount-change-uid.privilege and
> > hal-storage-fixed-mount.privilege where I have added myself the the
> > Allow i.e."Allow=uid:oberman".
> > 
> > Of course, my system is running i386, not amd64.
> > 
> > Any place to read up on the gnome-volume-manager? I didn't see much in
> > the FAQ.
> 
> Not specific to FreeBSD.  It's basically the process that watches for
> HAL changes, and executes configurable actions on those changes.  If it
> is the one responsible for kicking off the mount, it will narrow down
> where to troubleshoot.
> 
> Joe
> 
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Just to let you know, the latest hal update seems to have fixed this
one. It no longer is trying to mount my system partitions when I create
md ramdisks.

Thanks!
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