Re: Where are block@... database entries?

[Eugene Crosser <crosser@average.org>]

Kay Sievers wrote:

>>>Any advice/ideas how to make it work?
>>
>>You need to upgrade HAL.
> 
> Yes, see the RELEASE-NOTES for 061:
>   http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=RELEASE-NOTES
> 
> At the same time HAL was changed and released to work with the new udev.

There is no indication in the release notes on which version of HAL is
appropriate.  I am running 0.5.4, and it does not work, do I need to
upgrade?

> Note:
> Randomly upgrading critical parts of the system, without resolving all
> package requirements for the  kernel, udev, hal, hal-susbsytem-managers
> like NetworkManager, dbus, desktop-integration like gnome-volume-manager,
> will probably break your setup.

It's hard to break what does not work anyway...  The problem is that
udev is a part of slackware distribution, but hal is not, and it has to
come with gnome (FRG in my case).  Now I am trying to figure a working
setup, to be able to advice FRG folks after that.  Existing documents on
the web are hopelessly out of date, so please bear with me.

>>>And BTW, I *think* that "udev_log" in udev.conf (and maybe other
>>>entries?) should be uppercased.  This file is sourced into shell
>>>scripts, and then the binaries such as udevstart check for enviroment
>>>variable UDEV_LOG, in uppercase.  Do I miss something?
>>
>>Yes. The file is also a real configuration file of the programs.
> 
> Right! All the binary udev tools parse this file. This is the primary
> use of this file, while sourcing it in with a shell works too.
> (UDEV_LOG is exported from the udev tools after reading it from the
> config file, but with the log priority in its numerial representation
> not the text used in the config.)

I just noticed that when I change udev_log in udev.conf, udevstart does
*not* become more verbose as I expected.  When I set UDEV_LOG
environment variable and then run udevstart, it *does* become verbose.
I figured that this looks like a bug...

Eugene


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