Re: [2.6.18-rc2-mm1] libata cdroms not automounted

Robert Hancock
2006-08-07T07:51:48Z

J.A. Magallón wrote:
> Hi...
>
> Following with my switch to libata for everything...
> After latest patches, my burner and dvd work ok, apart from the fact that
> they do not get auto-mounted in gnome environment.
> udevmonitor shows nothing when a CD is inserted.

I don't think udev does anything with this, hal is the task that polls
to see when a disc has been inserted.

>
> More:
> - USB sticks work
> - IDE ZIP drive works:
> UEVENT[1154559818.714967] add@/block/sda/sda1
> UEVENT[1154559820.046948] mount@/block/sda/sda1
> - cdroms work under the old IDE driver (not tested in the same box, but
> with the same software)
> - srX cdroms generated by libata do not automount (tested in 2 boxes)
>
> As software is the same in the 3 boxes, and some things work, I suspect
> the kernel is not generating the correct events ?
> Or is the combo udev+dbus+hal userspace what fails ?
> But as udevmonitor shows events for zip drive but none for cdrom, I would
> vote against the kernel :)

From what I can tell it looks like this is due to some broken
assumptions in HAL that I described in this RH Bugzilla entry:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201533

Essentially it seems to assume that any sysfs filename like sr0 which
ends in a number corresponds to a partition, which in this case (and
likely others) is wrong. This looks to have been fixed in the HAL git
repository but hasn't made it into a HAL release yet.

IOW, from what I can see the kernel is vindicated..

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