Package: hal
Version: 0.5.10-5
Severity: normal
As I don't really want things to pop up automatically when I insert new
media, I have long wanted to disable the polling by hal of my two DVD
drives. Today I thought I'd found the correct way to do this, but
polling continues to be active.
I added the following file:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/hal/fdi/policy$ cat local.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="storage.removable" bool="true">
<merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
After restarting hal, this seems to have worked:
$ hal-device | grep -E "(^[^ ]|media_check_enabled)" | grep media_check_enabled
-B1
2: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_RW_AD_7170S'
storage.media_check_enabled = false (bool)
7: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_S_VDN71BTCDAT4EG'
storage.media_check_enabled = false (bool)
14: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_S_VDKE1BTCDZ1KHR'
storage.media_check_enabled = false (bool)
15: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_LITE_ON_DVD_SOHD_16P9SV'
storage.media_check_enabled = false (bool)
16: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0_storage'
storage.media_check_enabled = false (bool)
However, ps still shows the DVD drives being polled:
$ ps ax|grep hald-addon-storage|grep polling
6721 ? S 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hda (every 2 sec)
6735 ? S 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0 (every 2 sec)
/dev/hda corresponds to device 15 and /dev/scd0 to device 2.
I'm filing this as a BR as this seems like a bug in hal. However, if I've
done something wrong then please let me know.
Cheers,
FJP
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups
ii dbus 1.1.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii hal-info 20071212-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libgcc1 1:4.3-20080127-1 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.5-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libhal-storage1 0.5.10-5 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libhal1 0.5.10-5 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libsmbios1 0.13.10-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii libstdc++6 4.3-20080127-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-9 userspace USB programming library
ii libvolume-id0 0.114-2 libvolume_id shared library
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii mount 2.13.1-1 Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii pciutils 1:2.2.9-2 Linux PCI Utilities
ii pm-utils 0.99.2-3 utilities and scripts for power ma
ii udev 0.114-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii usbutils 0.73-5 Linux USB utilities
Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii eject 2.1.5-6 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
pn libsmbios-bin <none> (no description available)
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