Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:49:17 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More Gnome 2.16/HAL issues Message-ID: <20061110184917.956A94504F@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:27:05 EST." <1163179625.2149.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--==_Exmh_1163184557_81795P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:27:05 -0500 > > 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. > > > > 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. > > Yes, it is. > > > > > 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 . Gack! I just can't read any more! I looked right at that and did not see the troubleshooting section. Sorry! 1. http://home.comcast.net/~ykoberman/FreeBSD/lshal.out 2. http://home.comcast.net/~ykoberman/FreeBSD/geom.conftxt 3. http://home.comcast.net/~ykoberman/FreeBSD/fstab 4. http://home.comcast.net/~ykoberman/FreeBSD/mount.out 5. http://home.comcast.net/~ykoberman/FreeBSD/dmesg.boot > > > > 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?) > > Check CVS history and hier(7). OK. So these are seen as removable media. I was wondering about that. > > 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. Never mind. I just booted XP and the disk was again named "IBM_PRELOAD". Clearly not a FreeBSD or HAL issue. > > 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??? > > > > 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. Thanks, Joe! -- 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_1163184557_81795P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFFVMmtkn3rs5h7N1ERAvR6AJ4xUoJRqXlk500A6pvx5w6Qs79qYwCfc8fO CUGJpV/aznzbgopUwrSEc6o= =hj5u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1163184557_81795P--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20061110184917.956A94504F>