[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#515258: hal hangs with 2.6.29-rc5

[Stuart Pook]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-8
Severity: important


I compiled the 2.6.29-rc5 kernel using the config from
/boot/config-2.6.26-1-686 (I just changed the processor to Core 2). When
I booted this kernel it hung when starting hal. I reset the machine
and booted in single user mode. I then ran /etc/init.d/hal start. It
once again hung. I typed control-C and got a prompt but afterwards the
keyboard no longer responded (nothing I typed was echoed).

I have no problems when I'm running 2.6.28-rc6.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-rc6 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.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                    20081219-1   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                     1:4.3.3-3    GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.16.6-1     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                    3.2-20       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      /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
ii  libsmbios-bin               2.0.3.dfsg-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa

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

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