rawhide report: 20041015 changes

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Tue Oct 19 09:03:50 UTC 2004


David Hollis wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 12:01 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 
> 
>>That is correct. It works with .610 and it doesn't work well with .624.
>>
>>
>>>Thats.. puzzling. In what way does it fail?
>>
>>hald looks at e.g. /dev/sda1 to probe for file system labels, UUID's,
>>file system types etc. and it appears that reading fails. 
>>
>>
>>>strace diff of both working/failing may highlight something useful.
>>>
> 
> 
> I have noticed that with recent versions (maybe 0.10 and higher) of the
> Intel Wireless ipw2200 driver, haldaemon dies on startup.  If I unload
> the ipw2200 module, hal loads.  The strace output shows that hal is
> diddling around with the sysfs entries for the ipw2200 pci device when
> it blows.  I haven't spent enough time gathering initial info to be able
> to determine if its an ipw2200 problem or a hal problem to be ready to
> send up a bug report.  When I get back to states if it hasn't resolved
> itself with newer versions of both items, I'll have to do that.
> 

update to udev-039 and it should work again




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