On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:47 +0530, Vinay S Shastry wrote: > On Sunday 08 October 2006 19:47, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > 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. > > Ok, I upgraded to testing. All harddisk partitions appear in "media:/" , but > my root filesystem appears unmounted! The more important issue now is this: > I have two optical drives - a dvd combo drive(hdc), and dvd writer(hdd). All > media I put to hdd shows up fine. But for "hdc", most stuff doesnt show up in > media:/ or a popup in kde. So far, the popup came only for an audio cd, and > no other type of media. (no notification or entry in media:/ for data dvd, > data cd, or vcd). This behaviour was present even before i upgraded to > testing. So to me, it still seems like an issue with hal 0.5.8. > What do you recommend ? downgrade to 0.5.7 and live happily everafter or you > got some patches for me? :) >
The root disk appearing unmounted is known bug. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5519
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