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Subject: [gentoo-amd64]  Re: hald randomly unmounting partitions
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:03:14 +0000 (UTC)
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Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au> posted
200701182302.59291.paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au, excerpted below, on  Thu,
18 Jan 2007 23:02:59 +1100:

> For a few months, I have been having problems where some partitions are
> being unmounted at odd intervals.

I waited to see if someone with more knowledge on the subject would
post a reply, but I don't see any, so hoping the following is helpful
despite my limited knowledge on the subject...

hal-0.5.7.1-r3 was released yesterday (the day you posted), with a
suspend/hibernate bugfix and a pci-ids bugfix, according to the changelog.
That doesn't seem to be directly your issue, but with a bit of luck...

Beyond that, just looking around hal doesn't seem to have a configuration
of its own altho there are some examples in /usr/share/doc/hal-<version
that may or may not be helpful.  They looked interesting, but I didn't
see any info on where they should be put to activate them if one did want
to run them.  I'm not sure that's the issue, however.

If it were me the next place I'd check would be my KDE or GNOME removable
drive configuration. If you thought you were setting it up to manage your
CD/DVD/UDB devices and it got misconfigured (either as merged or by you)
to treat /all/ mounts as removable...  Also, those examples in the
documentation mentioned above reminded me an awful lot of the udev
configuration stuff, so I'd take a peak at that and see if anything out of
place jumped out at me.

You already mentioned using a wrapper for troubleshooting, which would
imply you're decently experienced at it.  What about using that wrapper to
pause the thing, then doing a ps --forest (or use a GUI tool such as
ksysguard to get the process tree), in ordered to figure out what's
invoking it?  At least then you'd have a better idea what you might need
to reconfigure or disable or whatever, to get it to quit trying to unmount
your main partitions!

Hopefully that's of /some/ help, anyway.  As I said, I hoped someone with
a bit more hal knowledge would reply, but I don't see anything yet, and I
/did/ just see the hal update and remembered seeing your post, so decided
to mention it at least.

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