Bug 142909

Summary:	RHEL4 -- /etc/fstab not updated when USB storage devices are plugged in
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Stuart Hayes <stuart_hayes>
Component:	hal	Assignee:	David Zeuthen <davidz>
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Description Stuart Hayes 2004-12-14 23:03:49 UTC

Description of problem:

When a USB floppy drive, cdrom drive or key drive is plugged in any 
PE with RHEL4 pre-rc1(x86), /var/log/messages records the device 
being detected, but /etc/fstab is not updated with the new mount 
information. The mount point under /media is not created.

There is no problem mounting the device manually.



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

Using hal-0.4.0-9 and kernel 2.6.9-1.860_ELsmp

How reproducible:
easy

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL4 Pre-RC1 with kernel 2.6.9-1.860_ELsmp
2. Plug in a USB cdrom/floppy/key drive
3. Observe /var/log/message to verify that the new device is 
recognized by the OS
4. Check /etc/fstab for any new entries and /media for any new 
directories 
  
Actual results:
the added USB device isn't automounted, nothing is added to /etc/fstab

Expected results:
device automounted in /media, and entry added to /etc/fstab

Additional info:
It appears that the usb devices don't even have an info.category when 
i look at the output of 'lshal'.  It also appears that the storage-
policy.fdi won't mount a storage device if info.category isn't set 
to 'storage'.

I'm not sure if this is intentional or not... nor am I sure who or 
what would normally set info.category to storage and that sort of 
thing.  This key/property (info.category) does seem to be set for the 
IDE cd-rom and the legacy floppy.

Comment 1 David Zeuthen 2004-12-15 02:02:23 UTC

I think this is fixed in the 0.4.2 hal rpm's available here

 http://people.redhat.com/davidz/rhel4/

which will be part of RHEL4. The reason you're seeing this bug is that
earlier versions of hal made certain (wrong) assumptions about the
sysfs-layout that are broken in the kernel you are using. Please see
if the new RPM's work.

Thanks,
David

Comment 2 Stuart Hayes 2004-12-15 16:23:32 UTC

The 0.4.2 hal appears to work.  I tried it with a USB floppy, a USB 
CD-ROM, and a USB key (SanDisk Cruzer Mini).

When will this version of hal be included in RHEL4?

Thanks
Stuart

Comment 3 Amit Bhutani 2004-12-23 00:26:05 UTC

Confirmed hal 0.4.2-1.EL4 in pre-rc2. Closing.