When starting the hal daemon, my dm-raid devices are not added to the database. Hence I cannot use gnome-mount to mount them. Here is a snippet of the hald debug output when starting up: 13:43:09.984 [I] blockdev.c:874: block_add: sysfs_path=/sys/block/dm-1 dev=/dev/mapper/nvidia_cjedaafj is_part=0, parent=0x00000000 13:43:09.984 [I] blockdev.c:915: Looking in /sys/block/dm-1/slaves for Device Mapper 13:43:09.984 [I] blockdev.c:926: /sys/block/dm-1/slaves/. -> /sys/block/dm-1/slaves 13:43:09.984 [I] blockdev.c:958: Couldn't find slave volume in devices 13:43:09.985 [I] blockdev.c:926: /sys/block/dm-1/slaves/.. -> /sys/block/dm-1 13:43:09.985 [I] blockdev.c:958: Couldn't find slave volume in devices 13:43:09.985 [I] blockdev.c:926: /sys/block/dm-1/slaves/sda -> /sys/block/sda 13:43:09.985 [I] blockdev.c:958: Couldn't find slave volume in devices 13:43:09.985 [I] blockdev.c:926: /sys/block/dm-1/slaves/sdb -> /sys/block/sdb 13:43:09.985 [I] blockdev.c:958: Couldn't find slave volume in devices 13:43:09.985 [I] blockdev.c:964: Done looking in /sys/block/dm-1/slaves 13:43:09.985 [I] blockdev.c:970: Ignoring hotplug event - no parent 13:43:09.985 [W] blockdev.c:1473: Not adding device object Any nvidia_cjedaafj* partitions are not added either. The dm-raid device nvidia_cjedaafj is created from /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. As an example the output of adding /dev/sda: 13:57:14.751 [I] osspec.c:966: hal_util_find_known_parent: '/sys/block/sda'->'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0' 13:57:14.751 [I] blockdev.c:874: block_add: sysfs_path=/sys/block/sda dev=/dev/sda is_part=0, parent=0x006a04e0 13:57:14.752 [I] blockdev.c:1248: parent_bus is scsi 13:57:14.752 [I] blockdev.c:502: Probing storage device /dev/sda 13:57:14.754 [D] hald_dbus.c:3294: udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model__NEC_DVD_RW_ND_4550A 13:57:14.755 [I] hald_dbus.c:3320: AddonIsReady on udi '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model__NEC_DVD_RW_ND_4550A' 13:57:14.755 [D] hald_dbus.c:3294: udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model__NEC_DVD_RW_ND_4550A 13:57:14.755 [E] device.c:1705: In hal_device_inc_num_ready_addons for udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model__NEC_DVD_RW_ND_4550A but all addons are already ready! 13:57:14.755 [I] hald_dbus.c:3320: AddonIsReady on udi '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model__NEC_DVD_RW_ND_4550A' [1336]: 13:57:14.755 [D] addon-storage.c:748: ************************************************** [1336]: 13:57:14.755 [D] addon-storage.c:749: Doing addon-storage for /dev/hdc (bus ide) (drive_type cdrom) (udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model__NEC_DVD_RW_ND_4550A) [1336]: 13:57:14.755 [D] addon-storage.c:750: ************************************************** 13:57:14.756 [D] hald_dbus.c:3223: udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model__NEC_DVD_RW_ND_4550A 13:57:14.756 [I] hald_dbus.c:3248: Local connection 0x6745e0 to handle interface 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable' on udi '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model__NEC_DVD_RW_ND_4550A' woohoo [1337]: 13:57:14.758 [D] probe-storage.c:155: Doing probe-storage for /dev/sda (bus scsi) (drive_type disk) (udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/117) (--only-check-for-fs==0) [1337]: 13:57:14.758 [D] probe-storage.c:407: Checking for file system on /dev/sda [1337]: 13:57:14.758 [D] probe-storage.c:413: Doing open ("/dev/sda", O_RDONLY) [1337]: 13:57:14.758 [D] probe-storage.c:421: Returned from open(2) [1337]: 13:57:14.758 [D] probe-storage.c:437: look for existing partitions for sda [1337]: 13:57:14.758 [D] probe-storage.c:447: partition sda1 found, skip probing for filesystem [1337]: 13:57:14.758 [I] partutil.c:446: No MSDOS_MAGIC found [1337]: 13:57:14.758 [I] partutil.c:873: MSDOS partition table detected 13:57:14.759 [I] hald_dbus.c:1366: storage.removable.media_available -> True 13:57:14.759 [I] hald_dbus.c:1350: storage.removable.media_size -> 1000204886016 13:57:14.759 [I] hald_dbus.c:1334: storage.partitioning_scheme -> mbr 13:57:14.760 [I] blockdev.c:387: entering; exit_type=0, return_code=0 13:57:14.763 [I] blockdev.c:141: Add callouts completed udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_SATA_WDC_WD10EADS_00_WD_WCAU45177909 13:57:14.763 [D] device_store.c:516: adding 0x6c5ce0 to (linux.sysfs_path,/sys/block/sda) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: $ lshal | grep nvidia_cjedaafj [no output] $ Expected Results: The dm-raid devices nvidia_cjedaafj* should be added to the hal database. I have sys-fs/udev-124-r2 and sys-apps/hal-0.5.11-r8 installed.
stupid question but do you have dmraid tools installed ? (you can check by installed gparted with USE="dmraid")
I do have dmraid installed. Nevertheless I installed (unstable) gparted with USE flag dmraid and gparted recognizes my raid devices properly. Unfortunately hald still does not recognize them.
btw, does your issue look like bug #262981 ?
It might be related, however I use the stable hal version and nevertheless it does not work: [ebuild R ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.11-r8 USE="X acpi crypt -apm -debug -dell -disk-partition -doc -laptop (-selinux)" 0 kB
Bump. Should I report upstream?
looks like upstream won't do any effort to add this feature. Did it ever worked ? If it did, you should point that fact to upstream.
(In reply to comment #6) > looks like upstream won't do any effort to add this feature. Did it ever worked > ? If it did, you should point that fact to upstream. Nope they won't. See here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2009-June/013432.html Hal seems to be in the process of being deprecated and thus no more features are added. It seems to be replaced by DeviceKit and libudev. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-May/011560.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2009-April/000140.html But nevertheless good news: As Kay Sievers points it out in his reply to my upstream posting: > Current work focuses on the device-mapper > udev integration regarding this problem And no it never worked afaik.
Indeed, HAL will just get bug fixes from now on. Now is probably the best time to get in touch with DeviceKit-disk upstream to make sure that it will properly support dm-raid devices. Closing. Thanks
(In reply to comment #8) > Indeed, HAL will just get bug fixes from now on. Now is probably the best time > to get in touch with DeviceKit-disk upstream to make sure that it will properly > support dm-raid devices. For convenience in case somebody reads this: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2009-July/000391.html This issue seems to be almost sorted out in DeviceKit-disks.
