Problem are your CD-ROM drives/kernel; HELP NEEDED

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi,
Well it would appear that you were right about it being a hardware
problem. I had a rather unstable ide harddisk at /dev/hdb
The moment I removed it from the computer things started to work. So now
things work great.

So my problem is solved - should I still file a bug? 

Thanks for all you help, and Martin thanks for turning off my machine
when you were done. It made my bedroom a little more quite :-)

Søren

ons, 22 09 2004 kl. 00:49 +0200, skrev Martin Pitt:
> Hi Søren, hi Warthogs!
> 
> (The funny subject is for catching the attention of the other
> developers).
> 
> On 2004-09-17 15:06 +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> > Volume Management not Supported
> > 
> > The "hald" service is required but not currently running. Enable the
> > service and rerun this applet, or contact your system administrator.
> 
> I spent some time debugging this on your box. Thanks for letting me
> onto it.
> 
> Conlusion: this is really not hal's fault, something is wrong with
> your CD-ROM drives /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd. Every process that tries to
> open it hangs (e. g. 'cat /dev/hdd').
> 
> If I issue this command at my box, I get:
> 
> $ cat /dev/hdc
> cat: /dev/hdc: No medium found
> 
> which is what it should be like. hal just tries to 
> 
>     fd = open (device_file, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
> 
> (device_file is "/dev/hdd"), which causes the process to hang. Above
> cat command can reproduce it more easily.
> 
> To play around a little, you can try to insert a valid CD in both
> drives and see if cat'ing them works then. Then hal should run as
> well.
> 
> Can you mount your CD-ROMs? If that works, then only the empty drive
> case is faulty at your box. But honestly I've got no idea what could
> be the cause of it.
> 
> Can you please file a bug report with all information you can get
> about this?
> 
> Wartys, any idea to that?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin