Re: hald broken with USB drives since 8.0-BETA2

Greg Rivers wrote:
> I've had to disable hald on my Acer One netbook since 8.0-BETA2.  Now 
> hald seems to work only the first time a USB drive is attached.  The 
> drive is detected and mounted, and can be unmounted and remounted via 
> kde3's media interface.
> 
> But if I unmount the drive and detach it, hald wedges the USB buss.  No 
> further USB connections (any device, not just disks) are detected, and 
> hald becomes unkillable.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this?  Any suggestions for troubleshooting?
> 

It is my understanding there is an outstanding bug in the usb code 
handling device enumeration for umass devices (and some others).  This 
manifests itself by the symptoms you see.  I believe the explorer thread 
is blocked so device detection stops.  I have personally seen this bug.

Unfortunately the person that was going to fix this has been away for 
awhile and will not return for another month so unless someone else 
fixes it 8.0 will ship with the bug.

	Sam