On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 22:52 +0000, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > > Few questions: > > > > 1. does hald appear to work when starting from a terminal window? E.g. > > can you run lshal or hal-device-manager? (remember to run it as root > > with --daemon=no --verbose=yes --retain-privileges) > > Can't find either lshal or hal-device-manager on my system so can't say. Hmmm [davidz@daxter hal]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/lshal hal-0.5.0.cvs20050310-1 [davidz@daxter hal]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/hal-device-manager hal-gnome-0.5.0.cvs20050310-1 > > > 2. Is the situation the same with the 2.6.11-1.1177_FC4 kernel you > > original had problems with? > > Yes. > > I'll open a bugzilla report on this (hal) rather than the kernel as this > looks more likely given my devices reappear after running haldaemon > from /etc/init.d Don't get your hopes high, it won't fix the original problem with usb-storage getting busted, but hald should cope with that. Thanks, David