Package: hal Version: 0.4.2-5 Severity: normal
When a media of unknown (to hald) type is inserted into a dvd-ram drive, hald polls the device without closing it. This makes it impossible to remove the media. hald needs to be killed to open the tray. To reproduce: - insert any dvd-ram into the drive - save the first 1 MB of data: dd if=/dev/dvdram bs=1M count=1 of=data.saved - zero out this block: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1 of=/dev/dvdram - open/close the tray - check device usage: fuser /dev/dvdram -> hald - device is locked - kill hald to open - repair the dvd-ram: dd if=data.saved bs=1M count=1 of=/dev/dvdram Though this example seems to be of minor practical importance, this leads to a more serious problem if the dvd-ram contains a device-mapper encrypted filesystem. However, as you need super user privileges anyways to mount such an encrypted volume, you are able to kill hald as well. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-ac8 Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.59 Add and remove users and groups ii dbus-1 0.22-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii dbus-glib-1 0.22-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libexpat1 1.95.8-1 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.8-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage0 0.4.2-5 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal0 0.4.2-5 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii pciutils 1:2.1.11-15 Linux PCI Utilities ii udev 0.050-3 /dev/ management daemon ii usbutils 0.11+cvs20041108-1 USB console utilities -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
