Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:27:05 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More Gnome 2.16/HAL issues Message-ID: <1163179625.2149.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20061110171355.4092F4504F@ptavv.es.net> References: <20061110171355.4092F4504F@ptavv.es.net>
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--=-APRFOXtX9871+OKW9Mub Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 09:13 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I continue to see very strange behavior involving HAL and disks in > 2.16. All ports are current as of about 8 hours ago. >=20 > I previously reported that HAL was not showing reasonable labels for > some devices. Well, this has changes, but I'm not sure that it is for > the better. >=20 > To make this issue tractable, I need to describe my system's > configuration a bit. It is a bit unusual and this my be the root of the > problems. Yes, it is. >=20 > The system is my laptop, an IBM T43. IT has one fixed disk with 4 > slices: > Purpose File Sys Status > 1. Windows NTFS not mounted in FreeBSD > 2. IBM Recovery FAT-32 not mounted by FreeBSD > 3. FreeBSD FFS Partitioned > a. / FFS Mounted > b. swap raw Swap > c. Disk FFS not mounted by FreeBSD > d. /var FFS Mounted > e. /tmp FFS Mounted > f. /usr FFS Mounted > 4. Scratch FAT-32 Mounted While this is helpful, it is not enough to understand your problem. You need to provide the information listed at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q19 . >=20 > It also has a bay for a removable device which may be a hard drive or a > CD/DVD. At this time, I am booting with a second hard drive with two > slices. The first is an emergency OS partitioned like slice 3 on the > main disk. The second is a scratch space with only the c (raw) > partition. >=20 > By default, nothing on this drive is mounted at boot. I often hot-swap > it for the CD/DVD and need to have no mounted partitions on it when I > detach it. >=20 > Now, with HAL running, several partitions show up as mounted on > /media. (Where did /media come from?) Check CVS history and hier(7). >=20 > The Windows partition is mounted with the label it was created with but > which I changed in Windows. I have no ides where HAL finds "IBM_PRELOAD", > but that is the name it gives it. Volume labels are read directly from the disks using libvolume_id. So far, I have not seen one incorrect label on my systems. >=20 > The sliced first slice on the removable disk has two partitions mounted: > 'a' (root) and 'd' (var). Why only these two I don't know. Also, to "show= s" > the 'a' partition as "aux", the label on the 'f' partition??? >=20 > I am now totally confused as to what the heck is happening. Very little > of it makes sense to me at all, but I suspect that fact that none of > these "removable" hard drive partitions or slices is in fstab may have > something to do with it. When you provide your fstab, I'll be able to comment on this. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-APRFOXtX9871+OKW9Mub Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFVLZpb2iPiv4Uz4cRAhY3AJ9I7qS4mfKoHZatzomi9lcBYkbQqwCfd09G JbyGnZ/VYOR+5MJfIIj57u4= =RrDK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-APRFOXtX9871+OKW9Mub--
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