configure does not find BLKGETSIZE64 + HD partitions not found

[Kay Sievers]

On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 14:17 +0100, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> When I run the configure script of hal 0.4.6, I get this error:
> 
> checking for BLKGETSIZE64... no
> configure: error: BLKGETSIZE64 is not defined

See if you can get a recent version of glibc-kernel-headers for your
system.

> What could cause this problem? I'm using Linux-2.6.10-ck5 and
> glibc-2.3.4-2mdk on Mandrakelinux Cooker.
> 
> With hal 0.4.5, I also have the problem that my hard disk partitions are
> not found. Also, all information for the hard drives (such as vendor and
> model) is defined as "Unknown". I think this is related to the kernel I'm
> running, as IIRC this was working with 2.6.8 Mandrakelinux compiled
> kernel. I've put the output of lshal on
> http://users.telenet.be/fhimpe/hal/lshal.txt
> and verbose output of hald on
> http://users.telenet.be/fhimpe/hal/hal-verbose.txt


Please see if:
  udevinfo -q all -p /block/hda

prints something taht makes sense. If not, run:
  udevstart

and look again. If you still get no meaningful output, try
to remove any .udev* file in /dev.

Kay

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