Package: hal Version: 0.5.8.1-4 Followup-For: Bug #400773
I can reproduce this condition exactly, but am not sure the problem strictly belongs to addon-storage.c. Thomas Petazzoni said "I suppose that udev already removed it since the device has been unplugged. So hald stays locked waiting for hald-addon-storage to exit (or to do something ?)." But I tried patching addon-storage.c at line 423 to cause this program to 'goto out' instead of loop indefinitely. The result is that hal-addon-storage nicely terminates, but the problem persists. I found two threads from the hal list from 2004 which appears to describe a similar condition [1] [2] and reached a different conclusion: "[an] unprivileged user can delay hotplug events for as long as he likes." [1] - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2004-September/001015.html [2] - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2004-October/001104.html Although my knowledge of these subsystems is sketchy, this seems to be backed up for me by udevmonitor, which reports different results on the initial (successful) and subsequent (unsuccessful) inserts of the USB storage. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-9 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.99 Add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.71-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3.3 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage1 0.5.8.1-4 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal1 0.5.8.1-4 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libvolume-id0 0.103-1 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.1-15 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii pciutils 1:2.2.4~pre4-1 Linux PCI Utilities ii udev 0.103-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii usbutils 0.72-7 USB console utilities Versions of packages hal recommends: ii eject 2.1.4-2.1 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
