[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#517295: [hal] Hal fails recognising "big" disk (1.5 TB)

[Matthias Bläsing]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-8
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

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Hey,

I got two big (1.5 TB) disks and tried to use them on my system. I
prepared them to be used as crypted volumes (luks) and read several
articles claiming, that in gnome I would be automaticly prompted to
enter the password.

Well it failed. Two hours later I had tracked the problem down so far,
that hal didn't even produce entries for the partitions.

This in turn lead me to the ubuntu packages. There is a patch
02_long_storage_size_patch fixes this. I got the sources for the debian
packages, added this patch and ... it worked!

I think this should go into debian as well.

Thanks in advance

Matthias


--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.29-rc6-git1

Debian Release: 5.0
  500 unstable        www.debian-multimedia.org 
  500 unstable        ftp.de.debian.org 
  500 intrepid        ppa.launchpad.net 
  500 hardy           ppa.launchpad.net 
    1 experimental    ftp.de.debian.org 

--- Package information. ---
Depends                    (Version) | Installed
====================================-+-================
libc6                       (>= 2.3) | 2.9-3
libdbus-1-3               (>= 1.0.2) | 1.2.12-1
libdbus-glib-1-2           (>= 0.78) | 0.80-3
libexpat1                (>= 1.95.8) | 2.0.1-4
libgcc1                 (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.3.3-4
libglib2.0-0             (>= 2.16.0) | 2.18.4-2
libhal-storage1      (>= 0.5.11~rc2) | 0.5.11-8
libhal1                  (>= 0.5.10) | 0.5.11-8
libsmbios2                           | 2.0.3.dfsg-1
libstdc++6                (>= 4.1.1) | 4.3.3-4
libusb-0.1-4           (>= 2:0.1.12) | 2:0.1.12-13
libvolume-id0          (>= 0.113-1~) | 0.125-7
adduser                              | 3.110
pciutils                             | 1:3.0.3-2
usbutils                             | 0.73-10
udev                      (>= 0.065) | 0.125-7
dbus                       (>= 0.61) | 1.2.12-1
lsb-base                 (>= 3.2-14) | 3.2-20
hal-info               (>= 20070402) | 20090202-1
pm-utils                             | 1.2.4-2
mount                      (>= 2.13) | 2.13.1.1-1