usb key mounting still broken

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "JH" == Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo.msbb.uc.edu> writes:

JH> Has anyone heard anything specific yet about the origin of
JH> this bug introduced with the 2.6.10 kernels?

All I know is that it broke USB key mounting on over a hundred
machines for me, but that I was able to hack around it.  My
observations are recorded at the end of
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=119140, but I think
the underlying cause of the problem originally reported there is
different than the one which started with 2.6.10.

Perhaps you could try this patch to /etc/hotplug/hotplug.functions.
It's just a nasty hack, but I've rolled it out across my network and
so far the problem has gone away.  This really needs to be fixed
within the kernel.

--- a/etc/hotplug/hotplug.functions.orig        2005-01-31
    11:57:59.000000000 -0600
+++ a/etc/hotplug/hotplug.functions     2005-01-31 12:06:45.000000000
    -0600
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@
                # parameters ... handle per-device parameters in apps
                # (ioctls etc) not in setup scripts or modules.conf
                LOADED=true
+               JUST_LOADED=true
            fi
        else
            # This module is already loaded
@@ -167,7 +168,19 @@
            mesg "missing kernel or user mode driver $MODULE "
        fi
        if echo "$MODULE" | grep -q "usb-storage" > /dev/null 2>&1 ;
        then
-           [ -x /usr/sbin/updfstab ] &&  /usr/sbin/updfstab
+           if [ -x /usr/sbin/updfstab ]; then
+#              INITIAL_DEVICES=$(ls -1 /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb-storage | wc -l)
+               INITIAL_SCSI=$(cat /proc/scsi/scsi | wc -l)
+               COUNT=10   # (big) upper bound of the loop
+               while [ $COUNT -gt 0 ]; do
+                   sleep 1
+#                  [ "$(ls -1 /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb-storage | wc -l)" -gt "$INITIAL_DEVICES" ] &&
+                   [ "$(cat /proc/scsi/scsi | wc -l)" -gt
                    "$INITIAL_SCSI" ] && break
+                   COUNT=$(($COUNT - 1))
+               done
+           fi
+
+           /usr/sbin/updfstab
        fi
     done
 }

JH> Hopefully it will be addressed in 2.6.11.

That's not going to happen unless somebody fixes it.  I haven't seen
others complaining about it, so I thought it was somehow related to
something I was doing.  Are others seeing this bug?

 - J<