Package: hal Version: 0.5.9.1-4 Severity: normal When I added a USB drive to the system, Hald segfaulted (see the kernel logs exerpted below). Since I don't access USB drives under X or Gnome, this bug has no real impact on me; I am simply reporting it as a service to the community.
Sep 15 12:49:25 jdc kernel: usb 5-5.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 Sep 15 12:49:25 jdc kernel: usb 5-5.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Sep 15 12:49:26 jdc kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Sep 15 12:49:26 jdc kernel: scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Sep 15 12:49:26 jdc kernel: usb-storage: device found at 6 Sep 15 12:49:26 jdc kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Sep 15 12:49:26 jdc kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage Sep 15 12:49:26 jdc kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Sep 15 12:49:26 jdc kernel: hald[3777]: segfault at 00002ad1f8756000 rip 000000000040e650 rsp 00007fffb23e7be0 error 4 Sep 15 12:49:31 jdc kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete Sep 15 12:49:32 jdc kernel: scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB-HS WDC WD1600BB-00R 0.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 Sep 15 12:49:32 jdc kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB) Sep 15 12:49:32 jdc kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Sep 15 12:49:32 jdc kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08 Sep 15 12:49:32 jdc kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through Sep 15 12:49:32 jdc kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB) Sep 15 12:49:32 jdc kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Sep 15 12:49:32 jdc kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08 Sep 15 12:49:32 jdc kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through Sep 15 12:49:32 jdc kernel: sdb: sdb1 Sep 15 12:49:32 jdc kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.1.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii hal-info 20070618-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f ii libc6 2.6.1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-5 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.0-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage1 0.5.9.1-4 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal1 0.5.9.1-4 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libsmbios1 0.13.10-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-7 userspace USB programming library ii libvolume-id0 0.114-2 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii pciutils 1:2.2.4-1 Linux PCI Utilities ii udev 0.114-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii usbutils 0.72-9 Linux USB utilities Versions of packages hal recommends: ii eject 2.1.5-5 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]