Frans Pop wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Run hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 >> The hald-addon-storage process should then be stopped automatically, and >> you should have a correct fdi file in /etch/hal/fdi/information. > > Yes, I know that that works (I discovered that fairly shortly after sending > the BR). But it still seems to me to be a bug that the method I used does > not work. > > The problem seems to be that when the polling is disabled > in /etc/hal/information/.. it does work, but when it is disabled > in /etc/hal/policy/.. it does not. > > And when I checked the hal documentation I found absolutely no indication of > why that should be so. > > And even if using policy is wrong, hal should not behave so inconsistent as > shown in my example: stubbornly insisting that polling is disabled when it > isn't. >
Sjoerd, when are the information and policy merged? Could it be, that thas happens after hald-addon-storage was forked? This would explain, that lshal lists storage.media_check_enabled=FALSE, but hald_addon_storage is running for the device. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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