Bug 135886

Summary: Reading data off block device from USB memory stick fails
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Zeuthen <davidz>
Component: halAssignee: David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Output from hald on .624 when plugging in USB memory stick
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Selected strace output from hald on .624 when plugging in USB memory stick
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Output from hald on .584 when plugging in USB memory stick
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Selected strace output from hald on .584 when plugging in USB memory stick none

Description David Zeuthen 2004-10-15 17:04:12 UTC 
Description of problem:

Reading data off a block device from a USB memory stick fails. This
means that the hal daemon cannot probe for file system type, volume
labels, UUID and so forth. Reading data off IDE devices appear to work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

2.6.8-1.624

This worked with earlier kernels, I've just tested with .610 and .584.

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start up hal daemon 
2. Plugin a USB stick
3. Verify with hal-device-manager that volume.fstype, volume.label
isn't set.
  
Additional info:

Will attach strace and debug output from hald from runs on the .624
and the .610 kernel
Comment 1 David Zeuthen 2004-10-15 17:05:53 UTC 
Created attachment 105284 [details]
Output from hald on .624 when plugging in USB memory stick
Comment 2 David Zeuthen 2004-10-15 17:06:41 UTC 
Created attachment 105285 [details]
Selected strace output from hald on .624 when plugging in USB memory stick
Comment 3 David Zeuthen 2004-10-15 17:07:11 UTC 
Created attachment 105286 [details]
Output from hald on .584 when plugging in USB memory stick
Comment 4 David Zeuthen 2004-10-15 17:07:53 UTC 
Created attachment 105287 [details]
Selected strace output from hald on .584 when plugging in USB memory stick
Comment 5 David Zeuthen 2004-10-15 17:10:48 UTC 
The difference seems to be that read(2) on the fd from /dev/sda1 fails
with EAGAIN (aka EWOULDBLOCK). Is this a bug in the application?
Comment 6 David Zeuthen 2004-10-15 17:12:51 UTC 
I'm here in the Westford office if you need more traces, info etc.
Comment 7 David Zeuthen 2004-10-15 20:28:33 UTC 
OK, as discussed on IRC the kernel update just exposes already flawed
apps wrt. using O_NONBLOCK. I've got a patch that I will apply to the
hal package to fix this.

Reassigning this bug to hal.
Comment 8 David Zeuthen 2004-10-15 22:25:19 UTC 
This is fixed in hal-0.4.0-3