Bug 211591 – sys-apps/hal (all versions) have broken handling of cryptsetup temp devices

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alex Elsayed 2008-02-27 07:13:08 UTC]

HAL has broken handling of the temporary devices that cryptsetup creates when opening a LUKS volume. Documented at the bottom of the linked page.
(Note: I am not the author of said page). Attaching patch to HAL and modified ebuilds for 5.9.1-r1 and 5.10 using said patch.

[Comment 1 Alex Elsayed 2008-02-27 07:14:08 UTC]

Created attachment 144719 [details, diff]
Patch to HAL fixing handling of temporary cryptsetup devices

[Comment 2 Alex Elsayed 2008-02-27 07:15:10 UTC]

Created attachment 144721 [details]
Ebuild for sys-apps/hal-0.5.9.1-r1 using above patch

[Comment 3 Alex Elsayed 2008-02-27 07:15:33 UTC]

Created attachment 144723 [details]
Ebuild for sys-apps/hal-0.5.10 using above patch

[Comment 4 Jakub Schmidtke 2008-03-04 16:24:25 UTC]

According to this: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12899#c2 this is actually a bug in udev that has been fixed in commit a0092d28.

[Comment 5 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-01-16 09:50:20 UTC]

is it still a problem with >=hal-0.5.11 and >=udev-117 ?

[Comment 6 Alex Elsayed 2009-01-16 17:33:23 UTC]

Well, commit 0f2dfc66d1f92aaf464adadeaf327d5a31e0ebcb in HAL's git repo fixed it for me, so if this commit is before that version was tagged, then the bug is no longer present.

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2009-01-28 21:09:00 UTC]

I am not sure about udev but, anyway, hal-0.5.11 shouldn't be affected by this as it includes workaround in http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12899#c3

I think that this can be closed (I can do it if you let me ;-))

[Comment 8 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-02-01 01:17:47 UTC]

according to git history the fix should be in 0.5.11 so closing this fixed.