Bug 95163 – hsfmodem: cannot complete hsfconfig

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Paulo da Silva 2005-06-05 17:08:35 UTC]

After installing hsfmodem using the ebuild I cannot complete
hsfconfig. Regions are not displayed!
Some /etc/hsfmodem subdirs are empty as for ex. /etc/hsfmodem/nvm/hsfmc97ali
which I think is needed for my HW.
BTW, I successful installed it by hand using the tar.gz from distfiles
and doing make install.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge hsfmodem
2.hsfconfig
3.

Actual Results:  
Does not show the Regions list and does not recognize any
try I made!

[Comment 1 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-06-06 22:19:32 UTC]

are we speaking about net-dialup/hsfmodem-7.18.00.03-r2 ?

[Comment 2 Paulo da Silva 2005-06-07 17:00:28 UTC]

Yes.

[Comment 3 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-06-07 21:09:43 UTC]

on my computer, 
  /etc/hsfmodem/nvm/hsfmc97ali/Region is a symlink to ../hsfpcibasic2smart/Region 
  /etc/hsfmodem/nvm/hsfmc97ali/Profile is a symlink to ../hsfpcibasic2smart/Profile 
what about yours?

does your /etc filesystem supports dir symlinks?

[Comment 4 Paulo da Silva 2005-06-08 15:02:14 UTC]

Yes. I'm working on a reiserfs fs.

In  my 

[Comment 5 Paulo da Silva 2005-06-08 15:02:14 UTC]

Yes. I'm working on a reiserfs fs.

In  my manual (make install) installation those links are as you wrote.
Besides the dir hsfmc97ali is itself a link to hsfmc97.

I just built a test environment using my backup partition and the ebuild seems
to be working fine now!

A very possible explanation for the reported problem should have to do
with the fact that I had something in /etc/hsfmodem directory before,
resulting from an old previous installation, that somehow caused the new
links not to be built. When I decided to install the drivers manually I
remember that I deleted the whole /etc/hsfmodem dir. before the installation.

In fact, I rarely need to use the dial-up modem. So, the driver has been
updated from long time ago but I didn't run hsfconfig and the problem
didn't occur until now when I really needed it.

May be you should focus on how those links are created and what happens
if for example the dirs already exist as really dirs.

For me the problem is closed, unless you need any help. In this case please
email me. I have always a (rsync) mirror of my system where I can conduce
any experiments you may need.

Thanks.

[Comment 6 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-06-08 22:24:25 UTC]

As you can see in pkg_preinst function, ${ROOT}/etc/hsfmodem/nvm dir is removed
before image dir is copied into the system.

I did emerge hsfmodem && emerge hsfmodem with same result: /etc/hsfmodem/nvm has
the right content.

[Comment 7 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-06-08 23:04:27 UTC]

I've just saw a stupid mistake that I've made in /etc/hsfmodem/nvm removal.

[Comment 8 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-06-08 23:04:41 UTC]

I've fixed it in CVS.