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hal package

hal doesn't handle invalid partitions sane

Bug #35781 reported by Kai F. Lahmann
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hal (Ubuntu)
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Low
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

if you have a drive without any valid partitions those get ignored (should ask to start gparted); if you have an unformated partition, you'll get an nautilus window showing the content of the last opened folder, but named as this device.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

I just tried to reproduce this: I did

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1

i. e. I cleaned the first partition of my USB stick entirely. Now I do not get anything for /dev/sda1.

Can you please do 'lshal > lshal.txt' and attach lshal.txt here?

Changed in hal:
assignee: nobody → pitti
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Kai F. Lahmann (kfl) wrote :

it might be, that this only happenes at the moment, when you create the partition.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

I tried to reproduce that here: I removed the /dev/sda1partition, unplugged, replugged and only got /dev/sda and sda2. Then I created a partition sda1, but it doens't get recognized until I replug the stick, and at that time we are in the situation of my first reply.

Do you have a recipe for reproducing this?

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Kai, I'm unable to reproduce this, and without at least an 'lshal' output there is little I can do about this. A ful hal debug output (see second half of http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices) would be helpful as well. Thank you!

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

This bug lacks the necessary information to fix it and has not been updated for several months, thus I am closing it now.

I will reopen it when more information arrives. Thank you!

Changed in hal:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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