Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:13:55 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: More Gnome 2.16/HAL issues Message-ID: <20061110171355.4092F4504F@ptavv.es.net>
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--==_Exmh_1163178835_81795P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline I continue to see very strange behavior involving HAL and disks in 2.16. All ports are current as of about 8 hours ago. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. Now, with HAL running, several partitions show up as mounted on /media. (Where did /media come from?) 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. 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 "shows" the 'a' partition as "aux", the label on the 'f' partition??? 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. I will leave discussion of HAL and my vnode-backed md disks for another time. (It seems unable to deal with them, but that does not really have any impact. And, I may have failed to note that on md device is union mounted. Fun, huh?) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1163178835_81795P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFFVLNTkn3rs5h7N1ERAotdAKCtr4M0KWzZUJUoB1LdAHbM1rWh1gCgt6Bl rTmA8Rb5rLZ38pd9FDnebCc= =E7e5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1163178835_81795P--
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