[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#491935: hal resets IDE after finding disk "busy", killing DMA, 32-bit access, etc.

[David Baron]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-2
Severity: important

When hal starts up, it seeming finds the disk partition "busy" and it resets
IDE, killing DMA, 32-bit access, etc. These can be reset on using hdparm
afterwards without any problem.

Problem was NOT dependent, as I first suspected, with rtc issues.
Did not occur with 2.6.23 realtime patched kernel.

 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (650, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.8-rt7-davidb (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser           3.108                  add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus              1.2.1-2                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info          20080508+git20080601-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6             2.7-12                 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.2.1-2                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.76-1                 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1         2.0.1-4                XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1           1:4.3.1-6              GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.16.4-2               The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1   0.5.11-2               Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1           0.5.11-2               Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios1        0.13.13-1              Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6        4.3.1-6                The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4      2:0.1.12-12            userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0     0.124-5                libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base          3.2-15                 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount             2.13.1.1-1             Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils          1:3.0.0-4              Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils          1.1.2.3-1              utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev              0.114-2                /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils          0.73-8                 Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                         2.1.5-10   ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  libsmbios-bin                 0.13.13-1  Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa

Versions of packages hal suggests:
pn  gnome-device-manager          <none>     (no description available)

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