Infinite loop with hal

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 10:41 +0200, Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
> [Follow-up to http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109239500600001&r=1&w=2]
> 

Thanks a lot for following up; sorry for the lag, I had to moderate the
message to get through and I only just saw the message

> Unfortunately, the problem did not disappear with the upgrade :(
> As soon as I access my ZIP, even with "head -c1 /dev/hdd", the
> infinite loop is back, using 100% of my little PentiumIII 450.

Does this happen even while hald is not running? I guess it really will
happen even though hald is not running, because of this message from the
syslog

Aug 17 22:25:40 localhost udev[23814]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/51-udev-persistent.rules' at line 3 applied, 'hdd4' becomes '%k'

Try moving that file out of the way and see if it happens again.

> The only way to stop the loop is to mount the ZIP or to eject it.
> In the latter case hald will crash.
>

Ugh, that's bad, care to send a backtrace?

> Here is the output of hald with some annotations, the output of lshal, and
> the infinite loop in action in the logs.
> 
> Information about my system here: 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-hotplug-devel&m=109264410507445&w=2
> with an upgrade to linux-2.6.8.1 now.
> 

It's very useful to get this kind of feedback, I really appreciate it.

Thanks,
David

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