[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#552139: /sbin/umount.hal outputs error if relative path is specified

[Carlo Contavalli]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.13-3
Severity: normal

[ user at joshua::/media ] $ umount ./disk     
/sbin/umount.hal: ./disk is not recognized by hal
[ user at joshua::/media ] $ umount /media/disk
[ user at joshua::/media ] $ 

As you can see, relative path causes error, absolute path works.

This behavior is unexpected, given that umount normally works just
fine with relative paths:

joshua:/mnt# mount /dev/sda1 ./tmp
joshua:/mnt# umount ./tmp
joshua:/mnt# 

joshua:/media# umount ./disk
joshua:/media# 

I suspect the fix would be a oneliner involving a call to realpath(3).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (1100, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  acl                          2.2.48-1    Access control list utilities
ii  adduser                      3.111       add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit                   0.3.1-1     framework for defining and trackin
ii  dbus                         1.2.16-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                     20090716-1  Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libblkid1                    2.16.1-4    block device id library
ii  libc6                        2.9-25      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.16-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.82-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                    2.0.1-4     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.22.0-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1              0.5.13-3    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                      0.5.13-3    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libpolkit2                   0.9-4       library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-23      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.16.1-4    Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                     1:3.1.4-2   Linux PCI Utilities
ii  policykit                    0.9-4       framework for managing administrat
ii  udev                         146-5       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                     0.86-2      Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-6 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  pm-utils        1.2.5-4                  utilities and scripts for power ma

Versions of packages hal suggests:
pn  gnome-device-manager          <none>     (no description available)

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