From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040809 Description of problem: when hald starts, it consumes 100% of cpu. tracing with strace indicates that it's reading /dev/hda1, which is a windows partition that's neither mounted nor listed in /etc/fstab. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal-0.2.97.cvs20040901-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. service haldaemon start 2. 3. Actual Results: hald sits in an infinite loop reading /dev/hda1 Expected Results: hald shouldn't spin Additional info: thinkpad t42p, running FC3T1 + updates hal version is hal-0.2.97.cvs20040901-1
Created attachment 103929 [details] output of "hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes" this is only the first few thousand lines (I see it looping after that)
Hi, thanks for noticing this. It might be fixed upstream already so when a new package is available I've add another comment to this bug.
This should be fixed in hal-0.2.98-4 which is available in Rawhide soon - alternatively you can download the SRPM from http://people.redhat.com/davidz/hal-0.2.98-4.src.rpm
Yes, 0.2.98-4 fixes it. thanks!