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hal package

hald hangs when started

Bug #114427 reported by Michael Ummels
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hal (Gentoo Linux)
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hal (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: hal

After uprading to hal version 0.5.9-1ubuntu2~feisty1 from the feisty-backports, hal hangs when started, which prevents the system to finish the boot process. Only after killing hald manually, the boot process resumes.
When I start hald manually by "hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes", the message "device_info.c:969: Unhandled rule (0)!" is being repeated indefinitely.

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Michael Ummels (urmel291) wrote :

These are the first 2000 linesl output by "hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes". The last message is being repeated indefinitely.

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Matteo Collina (matteo-collina) wrote :

I have had exactly the same problem until 5 minutes ago. I'm using an Asus A8JS laptop and I upgraded the acpi4asus module to version 0.41. That solved all problems with that version of hal.

I hope this can help.

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Michael Ummels (urmel291) wrote :

I should add that I am experiencing the problem on an Intel Core 2 Duo platform with the Intel G965 chipset. Anybode else having the problem?

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Matteo Collina (matteo-collina) wrote :

I don't know where to find that information :). It might be Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML, but I'm not sure.

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peteralf (peter-alfredsen) wrote :

(I am a Gentoo user)
I just added Gentoo Linux bug #172830 to this tracker. It seems to be the same problem. to quote:
"gphoto2.3.x is creating bad HAL fdi rules and installing them. Known issue with
gphoto2.3.x series."
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172830
You could verify that this is the same bug by uninstalling libgphoto and gphoto and re-installing hal.

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Changed in hal:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Michael Ummels (urmel291) wrote :

Since upgrading to Gutsy, I don't have the problem anymore.

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Michael Ummels (urmel291) wrote :

So I figured out that I still have the problem. Though, the system boots up quickly, hal is not responding. Indeed, if I start hald in verbose mode, I still get the message "[W] device_info.c:984: Unhandled rule (0)!" repeated indefinitely. Without hal, I cannot do suspend, standby or automount. Also, if I deinstall libgphoto2-2 the problem persists, so I think this unrelated with gphoto. Anybody has an idea how I can narrow down the problem?

Michael Ummels (urmel291)
Changed in hal:
status: New → Confirmed
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Michael Ummels (urmel291) wrote :

I found the problem. I had a malformated /etc/hal/fdi/policy/vfat.fdi. Probably my fault...

Changed in hal:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in hal:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in hal (Gentoo Linux):
importance: Unknown → Medium
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