Suspend and hotswapping problems caused by hald-addon-storage
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Bug Description
On this Dell D600 laptop, if I kill the hald-addon-storage process immediately after booting I can suspend and hibernate as many times as I like. I can also hotswap the removable CDRW/DVD without locking up the system. If I suspend without killing hald-addon-storage, it works the first time. About half the time after waking up, the hald-addon-storage process is D instead of S in the output of ps, meaning it is an uninterruptible sleep process. If that happens, I can sometimes get it to change to S (interruptable sleep) by ejecting and re-inserting a CD. If I use the ati (open source) graphics drivers, I can continue to sleep and wake as long as the process is not D when I suspend. If I use the fglrx (closed source) driver, I can only wake up once correctly if I suspend with the hald-addon-storage process is running when I suspend, even if the process is S. If I boot with the CD/DVD rom not inserted in the side of the laptop, I can suspend as many times as I like.
I would be glad to test more if it is helpful.
Hi Martin,
I suppose this is related partly to bug 58935, but unfortunately, after
testing further, I find that the problem wasn't solved by having only
one hald-addon-storage process instead of two. What having only one
process did, was drop the probability in half roughly of the problem
occurring. I can drop the probability to zero by killing all
hald-addon-storage processes. Please read the follow-up to my original
post. I probably should have done some more testing before I posted the
first time.
Thanks,
Rob
Martin Pitt wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 58935 ***
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 58935
> two hald-addon-storage processes per pooled device
>
>
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