[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#570274: hal: Hal crashes with segfault when activation software raid

[Michel Pelzer]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-8
Severity: important

When I start software raid hal crashes with seqfault 

root at server: => hald --daemon=yes
root at server: => /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid start
root at server: => dmesg|tail 
[349171.946543] PM: Adding info for No Bus:md5p1
[349172.026430] hald[16474]: segfault at 0 ip 000000000042de7b sp 00007fff4522fd00 error 4 in hald[400000+4d000]

This bug has allready been reported, but still issent fixed. 

Corresponding report have been postet for other distributions. 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480694
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/361689

They claim this patch would be a fix. http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21603

Here is my post in a debian forum concernig the issue. 
http://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=118262&start=0&sid=9d53a1d8c0cc509031668c2361e19649

Thx for helping out. 
Michel



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.9-grsec-nsas (SMP w/4 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           3.110                  add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus              1.2.1-5+lenny1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info          20080508+git20080601-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6             2.9-12+opp~1           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.2.1-5+lenny1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.76-1                 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1         2.0.1-4+lenny3         XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1           1:4.3.2-1.1            GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.16.6-3               The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1   0.5.13-3               Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1           0.5.11-8               Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios2        2.0.3.dfsg-1           Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6        4.3.2-1.1              The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4      2:0.1.12-13            userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0     0.125-7+lenny3         libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base          3.2-20                 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount             2.13.1.1-1             Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils          1:3.0.0-6              Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils          1.1.2.4-1              utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev              0.141-1+opp~1          /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils          0.73-10lenny1          Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                       2.1.5+deb1-4 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  libsmbios-bin               2.0.3.dfsg-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa

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

-- no debconf information