[Bug 85695] hald-addon-storage locks up system

[miaviator278]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: libhal-storage0

This is a hald bug not an ubuntu bug, but i didn't know where to go for
it.

Generally whenever my system goes idle for a period of time i see my cpu
graph go 100% to normal it locks up at 100% for about 5 seconds then
releases for one second.   I narrowed the problem down to hald-addon-
storage,   i can spend some time opening a terminal and sudo killall
hald-addon-storage and my system resumes normal operation.

I tried making a cron minutely command to do this but it does not seem
to execute when my system is locked up, only when it's not :(

My system log contains

Feb 16 21:06:03 mobile kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Feb 16 21:06:03 mobile kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Feb 16 21:06:03 mobile kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 16 21:06:03 mobile kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Feb 16 21:06:03 mobile kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Feb 16 21:06:03 mobile kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Feb 16 21:06:03 mobile kernel: hda: drive not ready for command


there is a kernel option with a very similar bug listed however it doesn't matter wether that option is enabled or disabled i get the same result.

since the program never crashes and has to be killed to restore system
operation i am not sure how to get any further with this problem, and
removing hald completely doesn't seem like a good idea.

sudo apt-get remove hald*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 127 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

thats not going to work out so well.

I also could not find a debugging package for hal.

ProblemType: Bug
Date: Fri Feb 16 21:06:29 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux mobile 2.6.20-g86a71dbd-dirty #5 Thu Feb 15 14:49:13 EST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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

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hald-addon-storage locks up system
https://launchpad.net/bugs/85695