[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#525222: USB devices do not trigger any response from hal - XFCE

[Jonathan Hepburn]

Subject: USB devices do not trigger any response from hal - XFCE
Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-8
Severity: important

Additional to bug #476260:

I run XFCE. A few days ago, HAL stopped automounting devices which identify as
USB mass storage. A card reader still automounts removable memory cards.
Attaching a USB memory stick, or a Nokia which is identified as a USB memory
stick, does not work.

Running # hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes 2>&1

Results in absolutely no response when the USB device is plugged in.

dmesg says:

usb 5-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 11
usb 5-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi11 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 11
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 11:0:0:0: Direct-Access     USBDisk  RunDisk          1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] 2002000 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.02 GB/977 MiB)
sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] 2002000 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.02 GB/977 MiB)
sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdf: sdf1
sd 11:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete


Mounting manually works fine.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.110        add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                        1.2.12-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                    20090309-1   Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6                       2.9-4        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.12-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.80-3       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                   2.0.1-4      XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.3.3-3    GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.20.0-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1             0.5.11-8     Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                     0.5.11-8     Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios2                  2.0.3.dfsg-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6                  4.3.3-3      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4                2:0.1.12-13  userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0               0.125-7      libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-22       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                       2.13.1.1-1   Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                    1:3.1.2-3    Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils                    1.2.4-2      utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev                        0.125-7      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                    0.73-10      Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-5 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  libsmbios-bin   2.0.3.dfsg-1             Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa

Versions of packages hal suggests:
ii  gnome-device-manager          0.2-3      GNOME device manager based on HAL

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