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breezy hal missing a patch needed to work with 2.6.18 kernel

Bug #60157 reported by Jody Belka on 2006-09-13

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	hal (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: hal

The version of hal in breezy (0.5.3) is missing a patch that is needed for hald to run on a 2.6.18 kernel. It fixes a bug in how hald deals with the sysfs tree. Without it, a change in 2.6.18 results in hald failing to start up successfully. The patch has been in hal for a long time now (since November 2005), and i've verified that adding it to 0.5.3-0ubuntu14 gets things working again.

Patch url: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal-commit/2005-November/001790.html

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Jody Belka (knew-ubuntu) wrote on 2006-09-13:

hal fix to work with 2.6.18 Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain)

I've attached a copy of the patch with the path info at the top altered to work in the dpkg-buildpackage process.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2006-09-13:

You will probably find several other things in Breezy that do not work with 2.6.18. 2.6.15 had a completely overhauled hotplug architecture, thus needs a matching udev, etc. pp. This patch is not the type of thing we fix in stable releases, since it is not a high-impact/data-loss/security bug, nor can it be guaranteed that the patch does not induce any regressions when using the standard breezy kernel.

Sorry, but thank you for your report!