[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#510546: hal ignores LVM volume

[Josef 'Jeff' Sipek]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-6

Two days ago, I did an upgrade (just catching up on 'testing' updates) and hal
stopped listing my /home (XFS + LVM).  This of course broke apps like Amarok
which use this information to find volumes.

$ dpkg -l|grep hal
ii  hal                                  0.5.11-6                         Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  hal-info                             20080508+git20080601-1           Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi files
ii  libhal-storage1                      0.5.11-6                         Hardware Abstraction Layer - shared library
ii  libhal1                              0.5.11-6                         Hardware Abstraction Layer - shared library

I tried to start hald by hand to get some useful debug info out of it:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
...
16:40:55.490 [I] blockdev.c:874: block_add: sysfs_path=/sys/block/dm-0 dev=/dev/dm-0 is_part=0, parent=0x00000000
16:40:55.490 [I] blockdev.c:915: Looking in /sys/block/dm-0/slaves for Device Mapper
16:40:55.490 [I] blockdev.c:926:  /sys/block/dm-0/slaves/. -> /sys/block/dm-0/slaves
16:40:55.490 [I] blockdev.c:958: Couldn't find slave volume in devices
16:40:55.490 [I] blockdev.c:926:  /sys/block/dm-0/slaves/.. -> /sys/block/dm-0
16:40:55.490 [I] blockdev.c:958: Couldn't find slave volume in devices
16:40:55.491 [I] blockdev.c:926:  /sys/block/dm-0/slaves/hdb -> /sys/block/hdb
16:40:55.491 [I] blockdev.c:926:  /sys/block/dm-0/slaves/hda5 -> /sys/block/hda/hda5
16:40:55.491 [I] blockdev.c:964: Done looking in /sys/block/dm-0/slaves
16:40:55.491 [I] blockdev.c:970: Ignoring hotplug event - no parent
16:40:55.491 [W] blockdev.c:1473: Not adding device object
...

$ mount
/dev/hda1 on / type xfs (rw)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/mapper/storage-home on /home type xfs (rw,logbufs=8,logbsize=32768)
rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)

$ sudo lvdisplay
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name                /dev/storage/home
  VG Name                storage
  LV UUID                NVXP64-yBye-UNrl-9rj1-fNvU-jHxU-2M8nja
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                204.23 GB
  Current LE             52283
  Segments               2
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           253:0

$ sudo vgdisplay
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               storage
  System ID
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        2
  Metadata Sequence No  4
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                1
  Open LV               1
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                2
  Act PV                2
  VG Size               204.23 GB
  PE Size               4.00 MB
  Total PE              52283
  Alloc PE / Size       52283 / 204.23 GB
  Free  PE / Size       0 / 0
  VG UUID               XOATjs-B0in-uiVV-FbOF-6ipN-S5W2-DgQqts


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