On Tuesday 13 September 2005 09:15, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
I've just put an ATA drive in a USB einclosure and connected it up, and it is found as sdb1,2,3 and is perfectly accessible. However, every 3 or 4 seconds there is a message in /var/log/messages as follows (two to serve as an example). When I am using AmaroK to play music off this drive, the messages stop, but start again as soon as AmaroK stops playing (or is not running).
Sep 13 11:05:43 babylon hal.hotplug[6072]: DEVPATH is not set
Hi Kevin, Out of curiosity, I Googled "hal.hotplug[*]: DEVPATH is not set" and came up with many hits, a lot of them current and crossing multiple Linux distributions... so, it doesn't look like this is a SUSE-specific problem. This one is interesting and comes from the SUSE lists: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-Apr/3170.html There are several interesting comments here: http://dropline-gnome.sourceforge.net/forums/ Note: Use my search string "hal.hotplug[*]: DEVPATH is not set" in the search field in the upper right corner of the page. Finally, the string "DEVPATH" appears in only two scripts under /etc/hotplug/: input.rc usb.rc I wish I had a solution, but Google at least found some clues worth investigating... regards, - Carl