[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#524781: hald does not read files in /etc/hal/fdi

[Michael Biebl]

Antoine Sirinelli wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> If you add some files in /etc/hal/fdi/policy, they will not be taken into
> account. I think hald is just ignoring these files. You can reproduce this bug
> like this:
> 
> -Terminal 1- launch this command:
> inotifywatch /etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check-disable-DVDW_TS_L632D.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi
> 
> -Terminal 2- launch then this command:
> /etc/init.d/hal restart
> 
> After the complete restart of hald, you can stop inotifywatch (with Ctrl-C):
> Establishing watches...
> Finished establishing watches, now collecting statistics.
> No events occurred.
> 

Btw, try to use
inotifywatch /etc/hal/fdi instead.

Michael



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