hal, usbstick and IBM R40

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 14:19 +0200, Thomas Gufler wrote:
> I don't have a file 'removable' in /sys/block/sda ? 
> ls -l /sys/block/sda/ reports: 
> insgesamt 0
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 13. Sep 14:02 dev
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 13. Sep 14:02 device 
> -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/host23/23:0:0:0
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    0 13. Sep 14:02 queue
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 13. Sep 14:02 range
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    0 13. Sep 14:02 sda1
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 13. Sep 14:02 size
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 13. Sep 14:02 stat

You need a newer kernel, 2.6.7 or newer should do it, not sure though.

> > So, I recently changed hal not to poll devices with storage.removable
> > set to FALSE (which is useful if you want to run hal on a system with
> > thousands of disks :-) but it appears we should at least attempt to do
> > an initial poll to kickstart the kernel. So I just did this; please try
> > the latest from CVS and see if that works.
> 
> Ok, using the newest cvs the problem seems to be solved. I tried 
> insert/unmount/remove 20 times in a row and it failed (interestingly) one 
> time. 
> 

What was the problem? Please tell us so we can fix it :-)

> Btw, I have a little problem with installing hal-cvs manually (no ebuild): I 
> use the following command to configure hal-cvs:
> 
> ./autogen.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --with-pid-file=/var/run/hald.pid 
> --with-hal-user=haldaemon --with-hal-group=haldaemon --enable-fstab-sync 
> --disable-doxygen-docs --disable-docbook-docs 
> 
> I want the configuration files in /etc, but when I 'make install' I get 
> hald.conf in /etc/hal/ (as I want), but device.d/50-fstab-sync.hal, 
> capability.d/ and property.d/ go into /hal (as I don't want). 
> Is this my fault or is there an other error?
> 

I think you need automake 1.7 or newer. If you have a patch that fixes
it with your installed versions of automake, autoconf, etc. please send
it this way :-)

Thanks,
David

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