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HAL requires /usr to be mounted read/write

Bug #248649 reported by hunger
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
hal (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

I have /usr mounted read-only and starting HAL fails with the following error message:
rm: cannot remove "/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/gparted-disable-automount.fdi": Read-only file system

This happens after upgrading to intrepid, HAL deb is at version 0.5.11-1ubuntu1.

Workaround: For now I am mounting /usr rw.

Tags: intrepid

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/hal
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hunger (hunger) wrote :

This happens due to line 38 in /etc/init.d/hal: That is where the offending rm is located.

I changed the line to start with 'test -w "/u/s/h/f/p/gparted-disable-automount.fdi" && ' and that seems to work well enough...

The actual rm is there as a aworkaround to LP #134712 (or so it seems), so only removing the file if it exists and is actually writeable is OK... in a ro /usr gparted should never have created the file in the first place anyway.

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hunger (hunger) wrote :

I'd really like to know whay this never was an issue in hardy for me... Seems like the rm hack was introduced in gutsy.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Fixed in trunk.

Changed in hal:
assignee: nobody → pitti
status: New → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package hal - 0.5.11-3~ubuntu1

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hal (0.5.11-3~ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Steve Kowalik ]
  * 05_removable_block_acl_support.patch: Add, adds support for adding ACLs to
    removable block devices (such as USB keys) on insertion.

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Merge latest changes from Debian.
  * debian/hal.preinst: Clean up the old Debian/Ubuntu specific hal rules
    file. This needs to be kept until after the next LTS.
  * debian/hal.init: Ignore failure of removing gparted-disable-automount.fdi,
    which happens if /usr is read-only. (LP: #248649)

hal (0.5.11-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * Remove our custom udev rules file and use the one provided by upstream.
    - debian/hal.udev.rules: Remove, no longer needed.
    - debian/rules: Remove the installation of the udev rules file.
    - debian/hal.links: No longer create the symlink
      /etc/udev/rules.d/z99_hal.rules. The upstream udev rules file is now
      directly installed as /etc/udev/rules.d/90-hal.rules.
    - debian/hal.preinst: Remove the conffile /etc/udev/hal.rules and the
      z99_hal.rules symlink on upgrades.
  * debian/control
    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0. No further changes.

hal (0.5.11-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/01_hal_debian_dbuspolicy.patch
    - Update security policy to allow access for root. (Closes: #482123)
  * debian/preferences.fdi
    - Remove outdated examples. (Closes: #484461)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:43:21 +0100

Changed in hal:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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