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[David Zeuthen]

On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 11:42 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:37:38AM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
>  > On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 08:01 -0400, Build System wrote:
>  > > hal-0.4.0-2
>  > 
>  > Doesn't seem to work very well for me nor J5 with
>  > 
>  > > kernel-2.6.8-1.624
>  > 
>  > and I'm trying to figure out why - it does work with kernel-2.6.8-1.610.
> 
> Just to make sure I'm reading this right, hal broke after the
> kernel update ? 

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'll file a bug.

Cheers,
David