Package: hal Version: 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Severity: normal If you add some files in /etc/hal/fdi/policy, they will not be taken into account. I think hald is just ignoring these files. You can reproduce this bug like this:
-Terminal 1- launch this command: inotifywatch /etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check-disable-DVDW_TS_L632D.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi -Terminal 2- launch then this command: /etc/init.d/hal restart After the complete restart of hald, you can stop inotifywatch (with Ctrl-C): Establishing watches... Finished establishing watches, now collecting statistics. No events occurred. That means that no program has tried to acces to the 2 files watched in /etc/hal/fdi/[information|policy] Thus, you cannot add home-made rules for hald. Antoine -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages hal depends on: ii acl 2.2.47-2 Access control list utilities ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii consolekit 0.3.0-2 framework for defining and trackin ii dbus 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii hal-info 20090309-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f ii libc6 2.9-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib 0.80-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 2.0.1-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-8 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-stora 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal1 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libpolkit2 0.9-3 library for accessing PolicyKit ii libsmbios2 2.0.3.dfsg-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library ii libvolume-id 0.141-1 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.2-22 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii mount 2.13.1.1-1 Tools for mounting and manipulatin ii pciutils 1:3.1.2-3 Linux PCI Utilities ii pm-utils 1.2.5-2 utilities and scripts for power ma ii policykit 0.9-3 framework for managing administrat ii udev 0.141-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii usbutils 0.73-10 Linux USB utilities Versions of packages hal recommends: ii eject 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-6 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer ii libsmbios-bin 2.0.3.dfsg-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa Versions of packages hal suggests: ii gnome-device-manager 0.2-3 GNOME device manager based on HAL -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org