Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Roger,

PLEASE! No replies to my mailbox. The list and the list alone is where 
these dialogs belong.


On Wednesday 19 October 2005 00:19, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 23:05 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is an update available via YOU for those of us 10.0 users
> > having the auto-mounting problems. It seems to correct the
> > problems, at least for me.
>
> So, automounting happens in HAL? That explains why an upgrade to 10.0
> hung at that point in booting. It was trying to mount a VxWorks NFS
> share, which I later found needed special mount options. Oddly, even
> though the resource was mounted with bg,intr, it still hung. So, I
> went back to 9.3 and eventually sorted out the problem. I will have
> to check what all HAL is up to.

HAL plays a role in the auto-mounting process, but I don't pretend to 
understand it well.

And I tend to doubt that NFS mounting is mediated by HAL. After all, it 
stands for Hardware Abstraction Layer. NFS mounts aren't hardware. But 
again, my relative unfamiliarity with these subsystems means I can't 
really say for sure.


If you had a system for which "lshal" just gave an error diagnostic and 
for which the HAL daemon, "hald," would not successfully start up, this 
update fixes those problems. Lshal now reports 101 devices on my 
system! and the overall behavior of auto-mounting for things like CDs / 
DVDs and USB drives (whether they're actually disk drives or 
pseudo-drives such as USB memory sticks or media players, etc.) now 
work.


> Roger


Randall Schulz