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hal package

  1. Bug #23106
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 23106

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

For the record, the reason is that hal is not allowed to read /dev/hd* since it
is not in group "disk" (and should not be, since it is equivalent to root
privileges).

Maybe hal can be changed to at least create some incomplete nodes for hard disk
partitions.