Hal hang on startup

[Kay Sievers]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 15:34, Phil Gunnewiek<phil at gunnewiek.com> wrote:
> I am currently running Arch Linux and HAL version 0.5.12
> Several updates to HAL didn't fix the problem.
>
> When my computer turns on and all the daemons start HAL takes about 20
> seconds to start.
> After I log in I can restart HAL in 0.1 seconds.
>
> I edited /etc/rc.d/hal and changed line "/usr/sbin/hald" to "/usr/sbin/hald
> --verbose yes --use-syslog"
>
> I pasted the relevant section of everything.log here:
> http://gunnewiek.com/up/everything.txt
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

What is /dev/sda?

  sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] 16777215 512-byte hardware sectors: (8.58 GB/7.99 GiB)
  sda: unknown partition table
  sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code
  sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x04 driverbyte=0x00
  end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 224
  Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 224
  Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 225
  Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 226

Can you remove that disk and try again?

Kay