I see these warnings in my /var/log/messages for hald-probe-serial on my ttyS(x) : May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald-probe-serial: [2355]: 19:11:38.468 [D] probe-serial.c:69: Checking if /dev/ttyS1 is actually present May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald[2316]: 19:11:38.470 [I] device.c:4323: entering; exit_type=0, return_code=1 May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald[2316]: 19:11:38.470 [I] device.c:4334: device removed due to prober fail May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald[2316]: 19:11:38.470 [W] device.c:1419: Unknown property type 29548 May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald[2316]: 19:11:38.470 [I] hotplug.c:138: /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS2 is a device (subsystem) May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald[2316]: 19:11:38.470 [I] osspec.c:966: hal_util_find_known_parent: '/sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS2'->'/sys/devices/platform/serial8250' May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald[2316]: 19:11:38.470 [I] device.c:4406: add_dev: subsys=tty sysfs_path=/sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS2 dev=/dev/ttyS2 parent_dev=0x006f7080 May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald-probe-serial: [2356]: 19:11:38.473 [D] probe-serial.c:69: Checking if /dev/ttyS2 is actually present May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald[2316]: 19:11:38.474 [I] device.c:4323: entering; exit_type=0, return_code=1 May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald[2316]: 19:11:38.474 [I] device.c:4334: device removed due to prober fail May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald[2316]: 19:11:38.474 [W] device.c:1419: Unknown property type 29548 May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald[2316]: 19:11:38.474 [I] hotplug.c:138: /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS3 is a device (subsystem) May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald[2316]: 19:11:38.475 [I] osspec.c:966: hal_util_find_known_parent: '/sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS3'->'/sys/devices/platform/serial8250' May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald[2316]: 19:11:38.475 [I] device.c:4406: add_dev: subsys=tty sysfs_path=/sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS3 dev=/dev/ttyS3 parent_dev=0x006f7080 May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald-probe-serial: [2357]: 19:11:38.478 [D] probe-serial.c:69: Checking if /dev/ttyS3 is actually present May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald[2316]: 19:11:38.479 [I] device.c:4323: entering; exit_type=0, return_code=1 May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald[2316]: 19:11:38.479 [I] device.c:4334: device removed due to prober fail May 26 19:11:38 localhost hald[2316]: 19:11:38.479 [W] device.c:1419: Unknown property type 29548 Reproducible: Always
I want to ask: "so what ?" does it stop hal from working or you from doing something with the serial ports ? Do you have serial ports at all ?
(In reply to comment #1) > I want to ask: "so what ?" > > does it stop hal from working or you from doing something with the serial ports > ? Do you have serial ports at all ? > I have no apparent problem with hal but my bug report was in case it could be problematic for other users :-).
The bug seems to be related to this found on freedesktop.org : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13803
Now I have this type of warnings about hald-probe-serial : Jul 13 08:57:24 localhost hald-probe-serial: [2316]: 08:57:24.248 [D] probe-serial.c:69: Checking if /dev/ttyS3 is actually present Jul 13 08:57:24 localhost hald-probe-serial: [2316]: 08:57:24.248 [E] probe-serial.c:84: serial port /dev/ttyS3 seems not to exist It seems to be related to kernel upgrading (actually 2.6.26-rc9-gitX), because I think none of recent gentoo upgrading can cause it.
The warnings seem to have disappeared with new udev-127.
Closing as fixed as your warnings have disappeared. As some background information, this was likely caused by the udev rules unification efforts. Pretty much all distributions compared their rules and tried to make them the same, so that a standard pack of rules could be shipped with udev itself rather then each individual distribution reinventing the wheel. Glad to see a result from it :)
