[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#406390: libhal-storage1: affecting auto-mount in latest etch

[Matt Gibson]

Just in case it's a useful point in the graph; I just found this bug  
report having got the exact same error message in a fresh new install  
of Etch.  In between the clean install and getting the error message,  
I'd taken the machine apart and moved some drives around.  Then I  
double-clicked in Nautilus on a new icon that had shown up for a drive  
I'd added (a single, ext3-formatted partition-disk that showed up as  
"111.8 GB Volume", as I'd have expected.)  And I got the error,  
exactly as shown, "libhal-storage.c 1401 : info: called  
libhal_free_dbus_error but dbuserror was not set..."

This error message was reproducible every time, and persisted through  
a reboot.

It turned out I'd replaced an old CD-ROM with the new drive, and there  
was an existing /etc/fstab entry for /dev/hdc (the new disk) as a  
standard CD-ROM mount point, i.e. an fstab entry that looked like:

/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

I replaced that entry in /etc/fstab with the right kind of entry for a  
real disk (i.e. /dev/hdc1 /data ext3 etc. etc.) and the error message  
disappeared, and the drive now mounts perfectly.

So, I'm wondering whether there's something odd going on with  
Nautilus, HAL, and /etc/fstab entries -- I hope this isn't a complete  
red herring, and that it might help shed some light on the problem.

Linux slave 2.6.18-6-486 #1 Tue Jun 17 20:57:16 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

un  libdbus-1-1    <none>         (no description available)
ii  libdbus-1-3    1.0.2-1+etch1  simple interprocess messaging system
ii  libdbus-glib-1 0.71-3         simple interprocess messaging system  
(GLib-bun  libdbus0       <none>         (no description available)
ii  libhal-storage 0.5.8.1-9etch1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - shared  
library
ii  libhal1        0.5.8.1-9etch1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - shared  
library

Cheers,

Matt