[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#462953: hal: Continues to poll DVD devices after setting media_check_enabled to false

[Frans Pop]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.10-5
Severity: normal

As I don't really want things to pop up automatically when I insert new
media, I have long wanted to disable the polling by hal of my two DVD
drives. Today I thought I'd found the correct way to do this, but
polling continues to be active.

I added the following file:
fjp at faramir:/etc/hal/fdi/policy$ cat local.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="storage.removable" bool="true">
      <merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>


After restarting hal, this seems to have worked:
$ hal-device | grep -E "(^[^ ]|media_check_enabled)" | grep media_check_enabled -B1
2: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_RW_AD_7170S'
  storage.media_check_enabled = false  (bool)
7: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_S_VDN71BTCDAT4EG'
  storage.media_check_enabled = false  (bool)
14: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_S_VDKE1BTCDZ1KHR'
  storage.media_check_enabled = false  (bool)
15: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_LITE_ON_DVD_SOHD_16P9SV'
  storage.media_check_enabled = false  (bool)
16: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0_storage'
  storage.media_check_enabled = false  (bool)


However, ps still shows the DVD drives being polled:
$ ps ax|grep hald-addon-storage|grep polling
 6721 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hda (every 2 sec)
 6735 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0 (every 2 sec)

/dev/hda corresponds to device 15 and /dev/scd0 to device 2.

I'm filing this as a BR as this seems like a bug in hal. However, if I've
done something wrong then please let me know.

Cheers,
FJP

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.105            add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                    1.1.2-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                20071212-2       Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6                   2.7-6            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.1.2-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.74-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1               1.95.8-4         XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3-20080127-1 GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.5-2         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1         0.5.10-5         Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                 0.5.10-5         Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios1              0.13.10-1        Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6              4.3-20080127-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4            2:0.1.12-9       userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0           0.114-2          libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                3.1-24           Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount                   2.13.1-1         Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                1:2.2.9-2        Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils                0.99.2-3         utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev                    0.114-2          /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                0.73-5           Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                         2.1.5-6    ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
pn  libsmbios-bin                 <none>     (no description available)

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