More Gnome 2.16/HAL issues

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:27:05 -0500
> 
> On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 09:13 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > I continue to see very strange behavior involving HAL and disks in
> > 2.16. All ports are current as of about 8 hours ago.
> > 
> > I previously reported that HAL was not showing reasonable labels for
> > some devices. Well, this has changes, but I'm not sure that it is for
> > the better.
> > 
> > To make this issue tractable, I need to describe my system's
> > configuration a bit. It is a bit unusual and this my be the root of the
> > problems.
> 
> Yes, it is.
> 
> > 
> > The system is my laptop, an IBM T43. IT has one fixed disk with 4
> > slices:
> >    Purpose	File Sys	Status
> > 1. Windows	NTFS		not mounted in FreeBSD
> > 2. IBM Recovery	FAT-32		not mounted by FreeBSD
> > 3. FreeBSD	FFS		Partitioned
> >   a. /		FFS		Mounted
> >   b. swap	raw		Swap
> >   c. Disk	FFS		not mounted by FreeBSD
> >   d. /var	FFS		Mounted
> >   e. /tmp	FFS		Mounted
> >   f. /usr	FFS		Mounted
> > 4. Scratch	FAT-32		Mounted
> 
> While this is helpful, it is not enough to understand your problem.  You
> need to provide the information listed at
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q19 .

Gack! I just can't read any more! I looked right at that and did not see
the troubleshooting section. Sorry!
1. http://home.comcast.net/~ykoberman/FreeBSD/lshal.out
2. http://home.comcast.net/~ykoberman/FreeBSD/geom.conftxt
3. http://home.comcast.net/~ykoberman/FreeBSD/fstab
4. http://home.comcast.net/~ykoberman/FreeBSD/mount.out
5. http://home.comcast.net/~ykoberman/FreeBSD/dmesg.boot

> > 
> > It also has a bay for a removable device which may be a hard drive or a
> > CD/DVD. At this time, I am booting with a second hard drive with two
> > slices. The first is an emergency OS partitioned like slice 3 on the
> > main disk. The second is a scratch space with only the c (raw)
> > partition.
> > 
> > By default, nothing on this drive is mounted at boot. I often hot-swap
> > it for the CD/DVD and need to have no mounted partitions on it when I
> > detach it.
> > 
> > Now, with HAL running, several partitions show up as mounted on
> > /media. (Where did /media come from?)
> 
> Check CVS history and hier(7).

OK. So these are seen as removable media. I was wondering about that.

> > The Windows partition is mounted with the label it was created with but
> > which I changed in Windows. I have no ides where HAL finds "IBM_PRELOAD",
> > but that is the name it gives it.
> 
> Volume labels are read directly from the disks using libvolume_id.  So
> far, I have not seen one incorrect label on my systems.

Never mind. I just booted XP and the disk was again named
"IBM_PRELOAD". Clearly not a FreeBSD or HAL issue.

> > The sliced first slice on the removable disk has two partitions mounted:
> > 'a' (root) and 'd' (var). Why only these two I don't know. Also, to "show> s"
> > the 'a' partition as "aux", the label on the 'f' partition???
> > 
> > I am now totally confused as to what the heck is happening. Very little
> > of it makes sense to me at all, but I suspect that fact that none of
> > these "removable" hard drive partitions or slices is in fstab may have
> > something to do with it.
> 
> When you provide your fstab, I'll be able to comment on this.

Thanks, Joe!
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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