[Bug 62239] Suspend and hotswapping problems caused by hald-addon-storage

[Rob Frohne]

Public bug reported:

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.

** Affects: hal (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Suspend and hotswapping problems caused by hald-addon-storage
https://launchpad.net/bugs/62239