Bug 428481

Summary: F7->F8 upgrade: external storage not detected by HAL
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dmitry Mikhailov <sexandvodka>
Component: halAssignee: David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Original, bad contents of /usr/share/hal directory none

Description Dmitry Mikhailov 2008-01-11 22:09:36 UTC
Hi,
I upgraded my (fairly recent) version of Fedora7 to Fedora8 couple days ago. 
Same day I 'yum update' it.

Hardware: IBM X41 laptop. Kernel 2.6.23.9-85.fc8PAE #1 SMP (stock, updated)
udev ver. 116
hald ver. 0.5.10

Problem: Insert a USB flash card or an SD to the internal reader: links appear 
in /dev, but no activity in HALd.

I expected the external media to be detected by HAL and then mount by KDE as 
it was under F7 and earlier.

FYI: No custom udev or hal rules were created, no OS shipped files were edited.

Temporal (bad) solution: 
create an udev rule just like in Fedora7:

[root@routerF7 rules.d]# cat 90-hal.rules
# pass all events to the HAL daemon
RUN+="socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event"
 
Final solution:
reset HAL rules to default by removing dir /usr/share/hal and reinstalling hal.

Before reinstalling hald:
[root@ibm 10osvendor]# pwd
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor
[root@ibm 10osvendor]# ls -1
10-cpufreq.fdi
10-dell-laptop-brightness.fdi
10-hal_lpadmin.fdi
10-hplip.fdi
10-ibm-buttons.fdi
10-input-policy.fdi
10-keymap.fdi
10-laptop-panel-mgmt-policy.fdi
10-macbook-backlight.fdi
10-macbookpro-utils.fdi
10-power-mgmt-policy.fdi
10-rfkill-switch.fdi
10-toshiba-buttons.fdi
10-usbcsr-mice.fdi
10-x11-input.fdi
15-storage-luks.fdi
20-acl-management.fdi
20-storage-methods.fdi
<18 files total>

After removing dir and reinstalling hald:
[root@ibm 10osvendor]# ls -1
10-cpufreq.fdi
10-dell-laptop-brightness.fdi
10-ibm-buttons.fdi
10-input-policy.fdi
10-keymap.fdi
10-laptop-panel-mgmt-policy.fdi
10-macbook-backlight.fdi
10-macbookpro-utils.fdi
10-power-mgmt-policy.fdi
10-rfkill-switch.fdi
10-toshiba-buttons.fdi
10-usbcsr-mice.fdi
10-x11-input.fdi
15-storage-luks.fdi
20-acl-management.fdi
20-storage-methods.fdi
<16 files total>

Possible problem: The contents of /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor were not 
deleted before writing new rules during update of hal.

P.S. I backed up the original '/usr/share/hal' dir so it's available for 
investigation (tar.gz is attached)

Comment 1 Dmitry Mikhailov 2008-01-11 22:09:36 UTC
Created attachment 291425 [details]
Original, bad contents of /usr/share/hal directory

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 05:46:14 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
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