hal truncating block.device on freebsd-8.0rc1

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 21:25 -0400, J.R. Oldroyd wrote:
> Attached USB camera in umass mode.  Doesn't automount.
> 
> Running hald --verbose shows:
> 
> ...
> 21:02:23.301 [W] hf-block.c:49: unable to stat /dev/msdosfs/NIKON: No such file or directory
> Run started hald-probe-volume (60000) (0) 
> !  full path is '/usr/local/libexec/hald-probe-volume', program_dir is '/usr/local/libexec'
> pid 6469: rc=1 signaled=0: /usr/local/libexec/hald-probe-volume
> 21:02:23.313 [I] hald.c:108: Added device to GDL; udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part2_size_4095705600_block
> 21:02:23.322 [I] hf-devd.c:316: received devd event: !system=DEVFS subsystem=CDEV type=CREATE cdev=pass1
> 21:02:23.330 [I] hf-devd.c:316: received devd event: !system=DEVFS subsystem=CDEV type=CREATE cdev=da1
> 21:02:23.331 [I] hf-devd.c:316: received devd event: !system=DEVFS subsystem=CDEV type=CREATE cdev=da1s1
> 21:02:23.331 [I] hf-devd.c:316: received devd event: !system=DEVFS subsystem=CDEV type=CREATE cdev=msdosfs/NIKON D300
> ...
> 
> # ls -l /dev/msdosfs
> total 0
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 110 Oct 22 21:02 NIKON D300
> 
> # lshal
> ...
> udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part2_size_4095705600_block'
>   block.device = '/dev/msdosfs/NIKON'  (string)
>   block.is_volume = false  (bool)
>   block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_D300'  (string)
>   info.capabilities = {'block'} (string list)
>   info.category = 'block'  (string)
>   info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part2_size_4095705600'  (string)
>   info.product = 'Block Device'  (string)
>   info.subsystem = 'block'  (string)
>   info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part2_size_4095705600_block'  (string)
> ...
> 
> Looks like hal is truncating the device name from "NIKON D300" to
> just "NIKON" so the mount is failing.

Hal doesn't support volumes with spaces in their names.  This is
documented in the FreeBSD HAL FAQ at
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html .  Patches to add support
for this are very welcome.

Joe

> 
> 	-jr
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