Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

["Greg Wallace" <gregwallace@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am getting errors in my system log related to this package because it
tries to mount my floppy drive every time I boot.  Is this normal?  Is there
some way to change a setting to tell Hal not to try to mount my floppy,
since there is nothing in it?  Here's what I'm seeing --

Linux hal-subfs-mount [5226]:  Collected mount options and called (0)
/bin/mount -t subfs -o fs=floppyfss,sync,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec /dev/fd0
"media/floppy"

Then further down in the log, I see --

linux kernel:  end_request:  I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
linux submountd:  mount failure, no such device or address

There are a few other related messages sprinkled in between and after these
last two, but all are related to this same problem.  I'm not sure I even
need this package, but don't want to try to uninstall it if it's providing
some basic functionality for me.  The only autodetection I need is for my
monitor and keyboard (since I KVM between different machines) and for the
automount for desktop links I've set up to some external hard drives (if hal
is involved with that, I don't want to uninstall it).  Other than that, I'm
not sure what hal would be doing for me.  On the other hand, if I can tweak
it to have it ignore the floppy during startup then maybe I would want to
keep it around, in case it provides some other benefits either now or in the
future.  Any help greatly appreciated.

Greg Wallace