Package: hal Version: 0.5.7-1 Severity: important When hald is running, the disk activity LED blinks constantly at a quick high frequence, with apparently perfect regularity. The delay between each activity appears to be 2 seconds. This happens on 3 Etch boxes on 4 tested. 2 of those are laptops of the same model, which have a LED that blinks for polls to the optical drive too. I don't think the LED of the other box which tested positive has a LED that blinks on optical drive activity, but I'm not sure (I can verify that easily if needed).
I have no clue about HAL and did not try to see if the problem could be solved with some workaround. All I know is that the problem appears/disappears on /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal start/stop. I did not try to strace hal or anything to determine if a specific file is being written to constantly (I don't know how to determine whether the activity is from the hard drive or optical drive polls), but I'm willing to do that provided instructions (although I wish that doesn't involve using a custom kernel). This is most likely an upstream, but I couldn't see any bug regarding this in upstream's BTS after a quick scan. If you think the severity looks inflated, I've posted a severity explanation of a similar bug on #308603. I have first noticed this bug at least 2 weeks ago. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.85 Add and remove users and groups ii dbus 0.61-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libc6 2.3.6-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdbus-1-2 0.61-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.61-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.1-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal1 0.5.7-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.11-4 userspace USB programming library ii lsb-base 3.0-16 Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip ii pciutils 1:2.1.11-15.3 Linux PCI Utilities ii udev 0.087-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii usbutils 0.71+cvs20051029-4 USB console utilities hal recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
