[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#562851: hal: load average constantly at about 1.00

[Frank B. Brokken]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.14-1
Severity: normal


When running hal the load average on this acer travelmate 5730 is constantly
at about 1.00. Shutting down hal reduces the load to near zero values. Top
constantly shows udevd running, and I initially expected udevd to be the
source of the problem. I purged all software depending on hal from my system
(in addition to hal mainly gdm and software depending on gdm) and the problem
was gone. After a fresh hal reinstallation the load returned to 1.00
values. Other (desktop) computers I maintain that are running hal do not show
the high load. Stopping hal reduces the load (of cource rendering the
computer useless). Stopping gdm does not reduce the load.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.111       add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         1.2.16-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                     20091130-1  Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libblkid1                    2.16.2-0    block device id library
ii  libc6                        2.10.2-2    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.16-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.82-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                    2.0.1-6     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.22.3-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1              0.5.14-1    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                      0.5.14-1    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-23      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.16.2-0    Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                     1:3.1.4-4   Linux PCI Utilities
ii  udev                         149-1       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                     0.86-2      Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  consolekit      0.4.1-2                  framework for defining and trackin
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-7 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  pm-utils        1.2.6.1-3                utilities and scripts for power ma

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

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