Bug 119639 – dbus hald ivman freezes machine

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description a 2006-01-19 21:54:35 UTC]

- Overview Description -
I installed dbus/hal/ivman and added them to default runlevel. The next time I rebooted, the machine froze just at when hdparm was starting.

As I tried several things, it seems like to make it freeze, I only needed dbus/hald and hdparm to be on the default runlevel. If I take hald or hdparm off from default runlevel, it will not freeze.

Also, taking dbus/hald/ivman off from default runlevel, and having hdparm on default runlevel, but load dbus/hald/ivman after the system boots, it will not freeze, like putting those 3 in the /etc/conf.d/local.start to load up.

-Steps to Reproduce-
On an x86 box with 2005.1 Gentoo with 2.6.13 kernel,

1. emerge dbus hal ivman
2. add those 3 to default runlevel (only dbus and hald is needed for it to happen)
3. reboot

-Actual Results-
Froze the machine completely just when hdparm started. 

-Expected Results-
Does not freeze.

-Additional Information-
emerge info

Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 i686 Transmeta Efficeon(tm) Processor TM8000
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENTOO http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.jp.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa anthy apache2 apm berkdb cjk cli crypt cups dba expat fam firefox flac gd gdbm gmp gnome gstreamer gtk2 hal imap ipv6 jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mmx mozsvg ncurses nls nopop3d pam pcre perl php png python readline samba sasl snmp sockets sqlite sse ssl tcpd truetype udev unicode usb userlocales xml2 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS

The reason I'm masking 2.6.14 kernel is it seems like mpd stops working with 2.6.14 kernel, maybe I write bug report on this as well.

The only thing that even said anything about dbus/hal/ivman in system log is,
[hald] Timed out waiting for hotplug event 438. Rebasing to 440

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-01-20 00:28:54 UTC]

dbus/ivman/hal/hdparm versions missing

[Comment 2 a 2006-01-20 00:39:55 UTC]

These are the versions for each software.

sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1  +X -debug -gtk -mono +python -qt +xml2
sys-apps/ivman-0.5_pre2  -debug
sys-apps/hal-0.4.8  -debug -doc -livecd -pcmcia
sys-apps/hdparm-5.9

[Comment 3 a 2006-01-24 17:20:50 UTC]

Sorry, didn't reopen after commit.

[Comment 4 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2006-02-20 19:42:54 UTC]

Please test with latest versions of those apps.