[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#407789: hal: Bug confirmation

[Tomasz Miodek]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-8
Followup-For: Bug #407789

Unfortunately this bug affects my laptop too.
After some (unpredictable time) laptop (Toshiba Satellite 1800-804) freezes.
Logs comparable to those here. Responds to mouse moves after few seconds
from the move.
Top shows hald consuming up to 99,4% of CPU.

Killing hald restored normal laptop functionality, but of course I have no
longer auto detection of USB devices, DVD-ROM, eth connections nor battery
state. I guess turning off CD-ROM checking could be a workaround (with
manual mounting of CDs/DVDs of course).

I also believe those bugs refer to the same bug/problem (newest with 
best name in my opinion):
#509027
#428756
#456214

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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              1.2.1-5                simple interprocess 
messaging syst
ii  hal-info          20080508+git20080601-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer 
- fdi f
ii  libc6             2.7-18                 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.2.1-5                simple interprocess 
messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.76-1                 simple interprocess 
messaging syst
ii  libexpat1         2.0.1-4                XML parsing C library - 
runtime li
ii  libgcc1           1:4.3.2-1.1            GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.16.6-1+lenny1        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        4.3.2-1.1              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+lenny1         libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base          3.2-20                 Linux Standard Base 3.2 
init scrip
ii  mount             2.13.1.1-1             Tools for mounting and 
manipulatin
ii  pciutils          1:3.0.0-6              Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils          1.1.2.4-1              utilities and scripts for 
power ma
ii  udev              0.125-7+lenny1         /dev/ and hotplug 
management daemo
ii  usbutils          0.73-10                Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                       2.1.5+deb1-4 ejects CDs and operates 
CD-Changer
pn  libsmbios-bin               <none>       (no description available)

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

-- no debconf information

Some logs from dmesg:
[  162.816744] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[  181.388085] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 1434.028069] hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
[ 1434.028096] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 1439.032035] hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
[ 1439.032042] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 1439.032051] hdc: drive not ready for command
[ 1444.036033] hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
[ 1444.036040] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 1444.036046] hdc: drive not ready for command
[ 1444.036053] hdc: weird block size 0
[ 1444.036057] hdc: default to 2kb block size
[ 1449.040032] hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
[ 1449.040039] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 1449.040045] hdc: drive not ready for command
[ 1454.044032] hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
[ 1454.044039] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[ 1454.044045] hdc: drive not ready for command

and so on until hal was killed.