On Sunday 08 October 2006 9:37 am, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 18:52 +0530, Vinay S Shastry wrote: > > Ok, so heres the story... > > I did a system upgrade some days ago, after 2 days, I reboot, and some of > > partitions stop showing in "media:/" (I use kde). I insert a vcd, a dvd, > > and nothing! no popup asking me what to do. Even entries from hdb (the > > drive with arch installed) is missing. "lshal | grep hdb" gives nothing. > > All this was working fine until the update. I went through the logs and > > found hal to have been updated. So, I thought that the new patches in > > 0.5.8.1 might be the issue. But, no go even with disabling the patches. > > So I rebuild 0.5.7.1 and everything is back to normal. > > > > Has anyone else experienced this kind of behaviour ? Anyone happen to > > have a fix for this? If a lot of people are actually experiencing such > > issues, can a revert to the previous version be considered? > > Also, if anyone who has had this problem.. got it fixed by upgrading to > > testing? > > Hal 0.5.8.1 is both in testing and in extra. The problem with hal > 0.5.8.1 is that the partition scan addon crashes when it finds DOS > extended partitions which have been made by microsoft tools. This has > been fixed in testing it seems, but it hasn't been fixed in extra.
Okay, yes, it is fixed for me now here. After running pacman -Syu yesterday, which picked up the new hal and a new kernel, I neglected to reboot. SO it appears fixed in testing. This is why it worked on my laptop but not my desktop. -- Greg _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
