[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#542772: hal: HAL deamon locks computer on boot, needs powercycling to recover

[Michael Biebl]

severity 542772 important
reassign 542772 linux-image-2.6.30-1-686
thanks

Dr A. J. Trickett wrote:
> On Friday 21 Aug 2009, you wrote:
>> Adam John Trickett wrote:
>>> Package: hal
>>> Version: 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2
>>> Severity: grave
>>> Justification: renders package unusable
>>>
>>> When init.d starts hald the computer stops dead and cannot
>>> be booted. A power cycle is required to restart the machine.
>>> It is only possible to use the computer with hald disabled.
>>>
>>> The problem has happened on the 2.6.26 and 2.6.30 kernels.
>>> When running the 2.6.18 kernel I can start hald, though it
>>> does take an age to start.
>> Well, it sounds like a kernel related problem then.
>>
>> Do you have any messages (kernel oops) in the syslog?
>> Could you disable hal from starting at boot time and then run it afterwards
>> manually (as root) with "hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes".
> 
> With the 2.6.30 kernel it ran for quite a while then stopped dead on
> 
> probe-storage.c:208 Doing open("/dev/hdc", O_RDONLY | O_NBLOCK)
> 
> hdc is the Dell removable CD-ROM.
> 
> I've just rebooted with the 2.6.30 kernel and started hald as normal from the 
> init.d and everything seems to be running okay, but I removed the CD-ROM. 
> 
> It also booted a lot faster, it looks like there is a problem with how the 
> kernel talks to the CD-ROM. Evidently hal works with the older kernel but not 
> with the newer one.
> 
> Is there anything else that would help?
> 
> The /var/log/syslog is full of:
> 
> Aug 21 08:57:28 loutre kernel: [  119.549832] hdc: possibly failed opcode: 
> 0xa0
> Aug 21 08:57:28 loutre kernel: [  119.577274] hdc: drive not ready for command
> Aug 21 08:57:29 loutre kernel: [  119.606625] hdc: status error: status=0x58 { 
> DriveReady SeekComplete DataReque
> 

Looks like a kernel regression, so reassigning.

Cheers,
Michael

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