Due to an oversight on my part, HAL 0.5.9 went stable but needed a udev fix that was not in the latest stable. This issue causes havoc on GNOME 2.18 and as such blocks GNOME 2.18 going stable. A few apps that dep on the latest HAL have also gone stable so backing HAL out of stable is not a possible solution. Basically, the kernel when not using an initrd will always say in /proc/mounts that /dev/root is your / block device. However, our current udev does not create the /dev/root block device. Which results in HAL not believing that / is mounted. Since after much debate it was decided that this issue is outside the scope of the kernel and HAL, the issue lies with udev. I have since patched HAL to not be stupid with / but that only appears in hal-0.5.9.1, which is not stable. Either way, the issue is that the kernel reports to userspace that /dev/root is the / device however no /dev/root exists. Several developers have hit their heads on this issue when symlinking /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts (which is a completely valid configuration).
sparc stable.
Stable for HPPA.
alpha/ia64/x86 stable, thanks Tobias
mips stable.
amd64 stable
Marked ppc/ppc64 stable.
Obsoleted by Bug 188796.
