Bug 229580

Summary:	hald gets "general protection"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component:	hal	Assignee:	David Zeuthen <davidz>
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2007-02-21 21:31:13 UTC

Description of problem:

This is what started to show up in logs recently:

hald[2595] general protection rip:37d0a75060 rsp:7fff178c5f28 error:0

Unfortunately no core file I can find.  If you login after that
then a deskop is quite unhappy and various alerts that things do
not work show up. 'hald' indeed is dead.

I got three of these recently.  They are preceded directly with messages
(the same datestamp) like those:
....
gconfd (root-12296): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source
at position 2
gconfd (root-12296): Exiting
kernel: hald[2595] general protection ....
.....

AFAICT in all cases this really meant a logout from a gnome-session.
Two times it was after a bunch up updates was applied but other time
I do not see anything special.  OTOH this does not happen after
every logout. "rip:37d0a75060 rsp:7ffffa1e1848 error:0" is the same
on every occasion.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
hal-0.5.9-0.git20070218.fc7

How reproducible:
See above.

Comment 1 David Zeuthen 2007-02-21 21:43:30 UTC

yeah, there's an annoying segfault somewhere (seen it on x86 too) and I guess
the x86_64 kernel just logs such things (the ia64 kernel prints even more crap).
I'll try to hunt this down for the next git snapshot (which is in a couple of
days...)

Comment 2 Deji Akingunola 2007-02-24 06:42:13 UTC

Can it be consolekit related? I've been experiencing similar issue when
switching user using F-U-S-A.

Comment 3 David Zeuthen 2007-03-05 19:58:41 UTC

Is this still happening with hal-0.5.9-0.git20070304.fc7? Thanks.

Comment 4 Michal Jaegermann 2007-03-05 20:50:51 UTC

> Is this still happening with hal-0.5.9-0.git20070304.fc7?
I did not see that so far but I did not have a recipe to recreate
that at will.  I intended to wait a bit ...

Comment 5 Michal Jaegermann 2007-03-06 22:10:54 UTC

If previous patterns would be kept then hald should crash by now and
the last one I have seen was immediately after an update (which will
be still the previous version running).

I guess that I will close that at this moment and if something
bad will happen then will reopen.