Description of problem: Ever since test4 came out (and I ran yum upgrade from my test3 installation), my Western Digital MyBook portable harddrive isn't automatically mounted by hal. It used to be that whenever I boot the computer I have to turn the harddrive off and on again for hal to detect and mount it, but now its not mounting it at all. A few USB disk-on-key style devices I have lying around are mounted properly, as well as a palm NVFS exported using a USB mass storage software called "Softick Card Export 2". All of them are detected and mounted by hal properly, but not the WD portable hard drive. Looking at /var/log/messages, here's the WD My Book connecting: May 8 23:53:51 normandi kernel: usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 May 8 23:53:52 normandi kernel: usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice May 8 23:53:52 normandi kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... May 8 23:53:52 normandi kernel: scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 8 23:53:52 normandi kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage May 8 23:53:52 normandi kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. May 8 23:53:53 normandi scanbuttond: scanbtnd_open failed, error code: -19 May 8 23:53:53 normandi scanbuttond: scanbtnd_open returned -ENODEV, device rescan will be performed May 8 23:53:55 normandi scanbuttond: meta-backend: detaching scanner: "Canon CanoScan LiDE 30" May 8 23:53:55 normandi scanbuttond: meta-backend: attached scanner "Canon CanoScan LiDE 30" May 8 23:53:57 normandi kernel: scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD 3200JB External 0108 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 May 8 23:53:57 normandi kernel: SCSI device sdb: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) May 8 23:53:59 normandi kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off May 8 23:53:59 normandi kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 8 23:54:01 normandi kernel: SCSI device sdb: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) May 8 23:54:02 normandi kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off May 8 23:54:03 normandi kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 8 23:54:04 normandi kernel: sdb: sdb1 May 8 23:54:05 normandi kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb May 8 23:54:07 normandi kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 and that's it. For comparison, here a minute later is a USB dok style media player connecting: May 8 23:54:43 normandi kernel: usb 2-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 May 8 23:54:43 normandi kernel: usb 2-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice May 8 23:54:43 normandi kernel: scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 8 23:54:43 normandi scanbuttond: scanbtnd_open failed, error code: -19 May 8 23:54:43 normandi scanbuttond: scanbtnd_open returned -ENODEV, device rescan will be performed May 8 23:54:46 normandi scanbuttond: meta-backend: detaching scanner: "Canon CanoScan LiDE 30" May 8 23:54:46 normandi scanbuttond: meta-backend: attached scanner "Canon CanoScan LiDE 30" May 8 23:54:48 normandi kernel: scsi scan: INQUIRY result too short (5), using 36 May 8 23:54:49 normandi kernel: scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access GENERIC USB DISK DEVICE 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS May 8 23:54:46 normandi kernel: SCSI device sdc: 2000561 512-byte hdwr sectors (1024 MB) May 8 23:54:47 normandi kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off May 8 23:54:49 normandi kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through May 8 23:54:50 normandi kernel: SCSI device sdc: 2000561 512-byte hdwr sectors (1024 MB) May 8 23:54:51 normandi kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off May 8 23:54:53 normandi kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through May 8 23:54:54 normandi kernel: sdc: unknown partition table May 8 23:54:55 normandi kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdc May 8 23:54:56 normandi kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 May 8 23:54:51 normandi hald: mounted /dev/sdc on behalf of uid 500 and we can see hal mounting it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.5.9-6.fc7
Created attachment 160771 [details] hal log from inserting a USB key that doens't get auto mounted by hal I see this issue in hal-0.5.9-8.fc7. My USB key is loaded by the kernel: Aug 6 21:14:40 ascension kernel: sd 12:0:0:0: [sdh] Attached SCSI removable disk But no "hald: mounted...". It does however work fine with cards inserted into my USB card reader, possibly because the actual USB device was connected at boot time? Attached is hald --verbose=yes output.
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