When assembling certain MD raid devices, hald crashes: #0 0x0000000000435b05 in hotplug_event_begin_add_blockdev (sysfs_path=0x26c0130 "/sys/devices/virtual/block/md0/md0p1", device_file=, is_partition=, parent=0x260bca0, end_token=0x26c0020) at blockdev.c:1501 sysfs_path_len = is_physical_partition = volume_label = 0x2681390 "" buf = "Volume\000\0009\001l\002\000\000\000\0001\n\000\000\000\000\000\000Ù\202\\\005Ê\177\000\000\000Þ\202\005Ê\177\000\000\037^Y\005Ê\177\000\000\000\206`\002\000\000\000\000 \000l\002\000\000\000" major_minor = d = (HalDevice *) 0x267de80 major = 259 minor = 0 is_fakevolume = 0 sysfs_path_real = 0x2693670 "/sys/devices/virtual/block/md0/md0p1" floppy_num = is_device_mapper = 0 is_md_device = 1 is_cciss_device = 0 md_number = 0 __func__ = "hotplug_event_begin_add_blockdev" #1 0x0000000000425d72 in hotplug_event_begin_sysfs (hotplug_event=0x26c0020) at hotplug.c:220 parent = (HalDevice *) 0x0 range = 1 is_partition = 1 d = (HalDevice *) 0x0 subsystem = "0Rë\rÿ\177\000\000S£D\000\000\000\000\0000\001l\002\000\000\000\0008\227Á\004Ê\177\000\000\001\200­û\000\000\000\0000\001l\002\000\000\000\0000\001l\002\000\000\000\0000\001l\002\000\000\000\0000\001l\002\000\000\000\000T\001l\002\000\000\000\000/\003l\002\000\000\000\0000\001l\002\000\000\000\000/\003l\002", '\0' , " \000\000\000\004\000\000\000 \020\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000è\004Ê\177\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\001\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000ªè\004Ê\177\000\0000\020", '\0' , "\b\000\000\000\000\000\000\000pªè\004Ê\177\000\000ÿÿÿÿ\000\000\000\000Tl\\\005Ê\177"... subsystem_target = __func__ = "hotplug_event_begin_sysfs" #2 0x00000000004261c8 in hotplug_event_process_queue () at hotplug.c:295 hotplug_event = (HotplugEvent *) 0x26c0020 lp = (GList *) 0x2683da0 lp2 = (GList *) 0x0 processing = 1 __func__ = "hotplug_event_process_queue" #3 0x0000000000424f82 in hald_udev_data (source=, condition=, user_data=) at osspec.c:259 fd = smsg = {msg_name = 0x0, msg_namelen = 0, msg_iov = 0x7fff0deb53d0, msg_iovlen = 1, msg_control = 0x7fff0deb63e0, msg_controllen = 32, msg_flags = 0} cmsg = iov = {iov_base = 0x7fff0deb53e0, iov_len = 4096} cred = cred_msg = "\034\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\001\000\000\000\002\000\000\000Í\034", '\0' buf = "add@/devices/virtual/block/md0/md0p1\000UDEV_LOG=3\000ACTION=add\000DEVPATH=/devices/virtual/block/md0/md0p1\000SUBSYSTEM=block\000DEVTYPE=partition\000SEQNUM=1723\000MAJOR=259\000MINOR=0\000DEVLINKS=/dev/block/259:0\000DEVNAME=/d"... bufpos = 209 action = 0x7fff0deb5417 "add" __func__ = "hald_udev_data" #4 0x00007fca055a420a in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #5 0x00007fca055a78e0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #6 0x00007fca055a7dad in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #7 0x0000000000414005 in main (argc=233531616, argv=) at hald.c:821 loop = (GMainLoop *) 0x260b2c0 path = newpath = "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/hal:/usr/lib/hal/scripts\000\000t\t²\004Ê\177\000\000.\000\000\000ÿ\177\000\0008õØ\003\000\000\000\000pgë\rÿ\177\000\000\030ië\rÿ\177\000\000h\v²\004Ê\177\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\220\233é\005Ê\177\000\000¸¤é\005Ê\177\000\000~E@\000\000\000\000\000\020Ò²\004Ê\177\000\000è\024@\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\001\000\000\000"... opt_child_timeout = 250 p_error = (PolKitError *) 0x0 __func__ = "main" long_options = {{name = 0x43e3e3 "exit-after-probing", has_arg = 0, flag = 0x0, val = 0}, {name = 0x43e466 "daemon", has_arg = 1, flag = 0x0, val = 0}, {name = 0x43e404 "verbose", has_arg = 1, flag = 0x0, val = 0}, {name = 0x43e40c "retain-privileges", has_arg = 0, flag = 0x0, val = 0}, {name = 0x43e3f6 "child-timeout", has_arg = 1, flag = 0x0, val = 0}, {name = 0x43e41e "use-syslog", has_arg = 0, flag = 0x0, val = 0}, {name = 0x43e3c1 "help", has_arg = 0, flag = 0x0, val = 0}, {name = 0x44c958 "version", has_arg = 0, flag = 0x0, val = 0}, {name = 0x0, has_arg = 0, flag = 0x0, val = 0}} Here is the output of hald --verbose=yes --daemon=no when adding the device: 19:58:32.177 [I] osspec.c:251: SEQNUM=1883, ACTION=change, SUBSYSTEM=block, DEVPATH=/sys/devices/virtual/block/md0, DEVNAME=/dev/md0, IFINDEX=0 19:58:32.177 [I] hotplug.c:435: checking event /sys/devices/virtual/block/md0 19:58:32.177 [I] blockdev.c:903: block_add: sysfs_path=/sys/devices/virtual/block/md0 dev=/dev/md0 is_part=0, parent=0x00000000 19:58:32.177 [I] blockdev.c:915: Handling /dev/md0 as MD device 19:58:32.177 [I] blockdev.c:727: In refresh_md_state() for '/sys/devices/virtual/block/md0' 19:58:32.177 [I] blockdev.c:729: MD Level is 'raid0' 19:58:32.177 [W] blockdev.c:735: Cannot get sync_action for /sys/devices/virtual/block/md0 19:58:32.177 [W] blockdev.c:1577: Not adding device object 19:58:32.177 [D] hotplug.c:453: events queued = 0, events in progress = 0 19:58:32.177 [D] hotplug.c:458: Hotplug-queue empty now ... no hotplug events in progress 19:58:32.201 [I] osspec.c:251: SEQNUM=1884, ACTION=add, SUBSYSTEM=block, DEVPATH=/sys/devices/virtual/block/md0/md0p1, DEVNAME=/dev/md0p1, IFINDEX=0 19:58:32.201 [I] hotplug.c:435: checking event /sys/devices/virtual/block/md0/md0p1 19:58:32.201 [I] blockdev.c:903: block_add: sysfs_path=/sys/devices/virtual/block/md0/md0p1 dev=/dev/md0p1 is_part=1, parent=0x00000000 19:58:32.201 [I] blockdev.c:915: Handling /dev/md0p1 as MD device Segmentation fault