New policykit/consolekit/hald problem(s)

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 22:58 +0200, Aragon Gouveia wrote:
> | By Aragon Gouveia <aragon at phat.za.net>
> |                                          [ 2008-05-11 22:42 +0200 ]
> > | By Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> > |                                          [ 2008-05-11 22:08 +0200 ]
> > > It appears you have a problem with your ATA controller.  Hal isn't
> > > picking up any children on atapci0.  What does atacontrol list report?
> > 
> > # atacontrol list
> > atacontrol: ioctl(IOCATADEVICES): Device not configured
> > 
> > The system has an ICH9 controller and a Marvell 88SX6101 controller onboard. 
> > The optical drive is connected to the Marvell controller (PATA).
> 
> I think I see what the problem is in the atacontrol utility.  It assumes ata
> channels start from zero, but that is not the case for my system which
> starts from 2.
> 
>         if (!strcmp(argv[1], "list") && argc == 2) {
>                 int maxchannel;
>         
>                 if (ioctl(fd, IOCATAGMAXCHANNEL, &maxchannel) < 0)
>                         err(1, "ioctl(IOCATAGMAXCHANNEL)");
>                 for (channel = 0; channel < maxchannel; channel++)
>                         info_print(fd, channel, 1);
>                 exit(EX_OK);
>         }
> 
> I edited the for loop to initialise channel to 2 and the output looks more
> sane now:
> 
> # atacontrol list
> ATA channel 2:
>     Master: acd0 <LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1653S/CS0T> ATA/ATAPI revision 5
>     Slave:       no device present
> ATA channel 3:
>     Master:  ad6 <ST3750330AS/SD15> Serial ATA II
>     Slave:       no device present
> ATA channel 4:
>     Master:  ad8 <ST3750330AS/SD15> Serial ATA II
>     Slave:       no device present
> ATA channel 5:
>     Master:      no device present
>     Slave:       no device present
> ATA channel 6:
>     Master:      no device present
>     Slave:       no device present
> ATA channel 7:
>     Master:      no device present
>     Slave:       no device present
> ATA channel 8:
>     Master:      no device present
>     Slave:       no device present
> atacontrol: ioctl(IOCATADEVICES): Device not configured
> 
> 
> However, this hasn't fixed hald.  Maybe it is making a similar mistake as
> atacontrol?

I think you need to bring this up with Soren (sos@).  If atacontrol is
making this assumption, it's probably doing so for a reason.  Maybe
there's a deeper kernel bug that needs to be fixed.

Joe

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