Your message dated Tue, 20 May 2014 06:52:10 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#747662: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #518711, regarding Should validate /media/.hal-mtab at startup to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: hal Version: 0.5.11-8 Severity: normal Right now, /media/.hal-mtab is left as-is by startup scripts, and is not validated by hal. What happened to me is that there where two leftovers from previous sessions, declaring that my DVD drive was mounted. When I (or another user on the same machine) was doing a mount, it was appended to .hal-mtab. Unfortunately, hal-storage finds entries in this mtab based on the device name, not the mount point or volume UID, and therefore the old bogus entry was used by hal-storage. This was leading to the following: * eject/unmount was bailing with errors on my account. The disk was still unmounted, but with an error saying that "directoy cannot be removed". Of course, it was trying to remove the wrong directory. The weird part is that the *wrong* line was used by unmount/eject, but the right one was removed from the mtab, thus not fixing the problem. Eject was failing since unmount failed as well. * other users were rejected because HAL considered that they were trying to unmount a disk from another user. What I don't know is wether it is safe to clean /media/.hal-mtab on startup, or if HAL should do the validation itself. Since hal-mtab is a hal-generated mount point list, I guess starting with an empty one is safe. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (400, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.4 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii hal-info 20090202-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.80-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 2.0.1-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.18.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage1 0.5.11-8 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal1 0.5.11-8 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libsmbios2 2.0.3.dfsg-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library ii libvolume-id0 0.125-7 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii mount 2.13.1.1-1 Tools for mounting and manipulatin ii pciutils 1:3.1.2-1 Linux PCI Utilities ii pm-utils 1.2.4-2 utilities and scripts for power ma ii udev 0.125-7 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii usbutils 0.73-10 Linux USB utilities Versions of packages hal recommends: ii eject 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-5 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer pn libsmbios-bin <none> (no description available) Versions of packages hal suggests: pn gnome-device-manager <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 0.5.14-8+rm Dear submitter, as the package hal has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/747662 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Ansgar Burchardt (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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