USB drive enclosure - excessive messages
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 Sep 13 11:05:43 babylon kernel: ReiserFS: sdb3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal Sep 13 11:05:47 babylon kernel: ReiserFS: sdb3: using ordered data mode Sep 13 11:05:47 babylon kernel: reiserfs: using flush barriers Sep 13 11:05:47 babylon kernel: ReiserFS: sdb3: journal params: device sdb3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 Sep 13 11:05:47 babylon kernel: ReiserFS: sdb3: checking transaction log (sdb3) Sep 13 11:05:47 babylon kernel: reiserfs: disabling flush barriers on sdb3 Sep 13 11:05:47 babylon kernel: ReiserFS: sdb3: Using r5 hash to sort names Sep 13 11:05:47 babylon hal.hotplug[6078]: DEVPATH is not set Sep 13 11:05:50 babylon hal.hotplug[6082]: DEVPATH is not set Sep 13 11:05:52 babylon kernel: ReiserFS: sdb3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal Sep 13 11:05:55 babylon kernel: ReiserFS: sdb3: using ordered data mode Sep 13 11:05:55 babylon kernel: reiserfs: using flush barriers Sep 13 11:05:55 babylon kernel: ReiserFS: sdb3: journal params: device sdb3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 Sep 13 11:05:55 babylon kernel: ReiserFS: sdb3: checking transaction log (sdb3) Sep 13 11:05:55 babylon kernel: reiserfs: disabling flush barriers on sdb3 Sep 13 11:05:55 babylon kernel: ReiserFS: sdb3: Using r5 hash to sort names Sep 13 11:05:55 babylon hal.hotplug[6088]: DEVPATH is not set Does anyone know what might be the reason for this, and (more important) how to prevent it cycling like this? -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - Meddalwedd Rhydd yn Gymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD
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
Hi Carl On Tuesday 13 September 2005 18:42, Carl Hartung wrote:
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.
Thanks for taking the time!
This one is interesting and comes from the SUSE lists: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-Apr/3170.html
I did search on Google before posting, and looked at this one. But the fix suggested (use usbfs instead of usbdevfs in /etc/fstab) doesn't apply, since that is already in the file.
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.
Likewise similar postings on this topic - they seem to do with hotplug issues when ipw2100/2200 wireless cards are put in, but I don't have a wireless card here, so again it's no direct help.
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...
It may be just a shortcoming in the hotplug system, which we need to wait to have sorted out. I actually preferred the old way, where you mounted things yourself, and then you knew what was going on. For a non-programmer like me, trying to follow a trail through the cat's cradle that is hotplug is pretty daunting. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - Meddalwedd Rhydd yn Gymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD
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