Bug 67611

Summary:	hal / gnome-volume-manager does not mount usb until hal is restarted after bootup. hald loads at wrong time in initrc.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jared Kidd <jaredkidd>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	minor	CC:	dshanker
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jared Kidd 2004-10-14 20:47:49 UTC

the new gnome-volume-manager/hald/dbus/udev whatever does not work (probably) because hald is not loaded at the right time on boot up.  On my system hald is loaded and then twards the end usbd is loaded.  my usb memory sticks do not mount (while cds do, after i disabled famd ;-), but once i do a "/etc/init.d/hald restart" everything works great!

I am not sure what exactly causes it not to work, I am just GUESSING.  But I am about to test possible solutions and then post back in my topic:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=237035


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot up
2.Plug in usb memory stick, it just doesn't work (I am guessing load hald before usbd or udev)
3.

Actual Results:  
no usb stick mounted, no fstab entry made.

Expected Results:  
make fstab entry (/dev/sda1) and mount the drive.

Simple fix (restart hald, make it start after dependant services)

Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-15 16:03:04 UTC

i dunno what usbd does, but you do not need it for gvm to work afaik & it might just be interfering.

Also you didn't mention your 'emerge info' like you always should in bugreport (read the form!)

Comment 2 Dave Shanker 2005-05-01 13:28:25 UTC

Is this still an issue?

Comment 3 Sven 2005-06-03 04:20:44 UTC

Hi all, this confusion is created because usbd is misspelled in the ebuild!

It does not mean USB Daemon, d stands for development.

Therefore it is important someone fixes the ebuilds description text, so people
know its only for developers and not a needed Daemon for running usb.

( http://wwwbode.cs.tum.edu/Par/arch/usb/ ):
"Universal Serial Bus Development for Linux"

Comment 4 Sven 2005-06-03 04:22:43 UTC

sorry for double posting,

a better idea would be rename the package to usbdev - and the Description

Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-06-03 04:43:10 UTC

thanks for the insight, but with no reply from the reporter I'm closing this.