Comment 36 for bug 218834

Hello all,

the "increase timeout" hack has been reviewed upstream recently, and is debated (rightfully, since it was just a workaround). Could people who were affected by this bug please test whether an alternative and better approach works for them as well?

I built a test package for 8.10 (intrepid, *not* for hardy) with Danny's proposed patch [1]. Please install it with:

  cd /tmp/
  wget http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/tmp/hal-test-218834/hal_0.5.11-4ubuntu4+pitti1_i386.deb
  sudo dpkg -i hal_0.5.11-4ubuntu4+pitti1_i386.deb

Then please check if your CDs are still recognized and automounted properly. After the test, you can revert to the original 8.10 package with

  sudo apt-get install hal/intrepid

if you want.

http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/tmp/hal-test-218834/ also contains the source package, in case you are interested.

Thanks a lot in advance for your help!

[1] http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/dkukawka/hal.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=7aca1f3fefefd3c760636aabcff1e25946ab6391;hp=98b0b8434bf3506c69c33de4f126d885448dcbbb