Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 133834
Hal thinks my camera is two floppy disks
Last modified: 2013-03-05 22:41:26 EST
Description of problem: When i plug in my camera, hal sets up two new montpoints which get automagically mounted. And when i remove the camera (it is an usb mass storage device), it gets unmounted and the mountpoints removed. Nice. Only problem is: -Two mountpoints get created, for both sda and sda1 - and only sda1 is needed. So why create two mountpoints? -It is not a floppy, but a camera! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal-0.2.98.cvs20040923-1 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Plug in an usb mass storage device (at least my camera) 2. 3. Actual results: Two mountpoints get created Expected results: One mounpoint called something else than "floppy" gets created. USB, maybe? Additional info: fstab when camera plugged in: /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 192.168.0.200:/home/kyrre /mnt/nfs nfs user 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto noauto,user,exec,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,exec,kudzu 0 0 /dev/sda /media/floppy1 auto noauto,user,exec,kudzu 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/floppy2 vfat noauto,user,exec,kudzu,noatime,sync 0 0
Ok, I need the following 1. the output from 'hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes' from after the "Device Probing Completed" line (one of the very last lines on hald startup) and from when you have hotplugged your camera. 2. The output from lshal when the camera is attached and powered up 3. The output from 'tree /sys' when the camera is attached and powered up (you may need to 'yum install tree') 4. The output of 'cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage/<number>' with <number> being probably the only file in that directory I think the heuristic hal uses to detect a USB floppy drive may need to be revisited. Thanks, David
okay. This is what i did: - start hald. - power the cam up - run lshal > lshallog - install tree :) (me loooves the new yum) - run tree /sys > treelog - cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage/8 > catproclog - power down camera - stop hald with control+c - go submit the logs
Created attachment 104401 [details] catproclog
Created attachment 104402 [details] haldebuglog
Created attachment 104403 [details] lshallog
Created attachment 104404 [details] treelog
Hmm... forgot to "filter" haldebuglog. Bet you can do that yourself. Good night - its 23:15 here and i am tired of having sqatted bugs since 12:00 RH should have payed me for sqatting bugs. *cantwait for FC3*
Ok, this is an easy fix - hal should really just look at the usb interface class. Your device reports the class tripplet (8, 5, 0) while my USB floppy drive reports (8, 4, 0). According to this snippet from file:///usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids C 08 Mass Storage 01 RBC (typically Flash) 00 Control/Bulk/Interrupt 01 Control/Bulk 50 Bulk (Zip) 02 SFF-8020i, MMC-2 (ATAPI) 03 QIC-157 04 Floppy (UFI) 00 Control/Bulk/Interrupt 01 Control/Bulk 50 Bulk (Zip) 05 SFF-8070i 06 SCSI 00 Control/Bulk/Interrupt 01 Control/Bulk 50 Bulk (Zip) hal should just tag all devices with protocol=8, subprotocol=4 as floppies. Today we just look at the " Protocol: Uniform Floppy Interface (UFI)" line in /proc/scsi/usb-storage/number which is a bug as this report shows. Thanks for filing this bug; it will be fixed in the next update.
Hmm... I updated hal to hal-0.2.98.cvs20040927-1 - and it STILL thinks it is two (wrong - only sda1 should be mounted) floppy (wrong - its not a floppy, but the biggest problem is that there is created two of them) disk. Only difference is that they refuse to mount it automatically now.
It's fixed in upstream CVS (today) but not yet in Rawhide. Will upload a new package later today. Comment 8 was written after the hal-0.2.98.cvs20040927-1 was uploaded. David
Forgot to tell you - it works like a charm now :) No reason not to close this now.