http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237984 is more like my problem. I've included myself on it. Bug 236635 deals with issues in udev127 and gentoo specific hal rules (both of which I'm aware of.) I'll resubmit this to linux-hotplug (via CC) as well. Robby Workman wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:57:25 +1000 > Scott Tester <scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> I re-emerged udev -128 (I'm using gentoo) then re-emerged hal-0.5.11*. >> Still no go. >> >> ntfs.c line 145 calls util.c which then seems to fail on an lseek( ) >> call on line 405 with strerror(errno)="Invalid Argument". >> Yet the arguments are identical with udev127 - only they succeed. >> >> >> *the actual gentoo ebuild is hal-0.5.11-r3. (which includes the >> udevadm patch you mentioned.) >> > > > > See comment 26 in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236635 - > that's really not a solution, but it's worth seeing if it makes a > difference on your system. Either way, this probably *is* a bug in > udev since the hal rebuild still doesn't work. Whether you should file > it on gentoo's bugzilla and/or send it back to the udev mail list is up > to you - I'd probably do both. :-) > > -RW > > -- Scott Tester IT Department SMBC www.smbc.com.au <http://www.smbc.com.au> Sydney Missionary and Bible College 43 Badminton Road, Croydon NSW 2132 Phone: 02 9747 4780 ext 147 Mobile: 0411 145 584 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html