id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
2679	hal hardware awarness with newer udev	channelzero	DJ Lucas	"As of udev-126 the udevinfo tool is not longer installed, in stable hal-versions <= 0.5.11, 
this tool is hard coded in linux specific code. Resulting in a hal which isn't aware of the 
hardware in your system. Especially lshal and desktop-apps like nautilus are affected.

The hal-developers have fixed the problem within git-repo:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-August/012177.html

One easy but maybe not portable solution is to set a link 
from /sbin/udevadm to /usr/bin/udevinfo, which worked for me.
Using: udev-127, dbus-1.2.4 and hal-0.5.11. 

related code (not tested):[[BR]]
--- hal-0.5.11/hald/linux/coldplug.c_orig	2008-05-08 01:23:32.000000000 +0200[[BR]]
+++ hal-0.5.11/hald/linux/coldplug.c	2008-12-04 18:50:37.000000000 +0100[[BR]]
@@ -149,8 +154,8 @@[[BR]]
 static gboolean[[BR]]
 hal_util_init_sysfs_to_udev_map (void)[[BR]]
 {[[BR]]
-	char *udevdb_export_argv[] = { ""/usr/bin/udevinfo"", ""-e"", NULL };[[BR]]
-	char *udevroot_argv[] = { ""/usr/bin/udevinfo"", ""-r"", NULL };[[BR]]
+	char *udevdb_export_argv[] = { ""/sbin/udevadm"", ""info"", ""-e"", NULL };[[BR]]
+	char *udevroot_argv[] = { ""/sbin/udevadm"", ""info"", ""-r"", NULL };[[BR]]
 	int udevinfo_exitcode;[[BR]]
 	UdevInfo *info = NULL;[[BR]]
 	char *p;[[BR]]
[[BR]]
--- hal-0.5.11/hald/linux/blockdev.c_orig	2008-05-08 01:23:41.000000000 +0200[[BR]]
+++ hal-0.5.11/hald/linux/blockdev.c	2008-12-04 18:50:55.000000000 +0100[[BR]]
@@ -1750,11 +1854,11 @@[[BR]]
         char *ret;[[BR]]
         char *u_stdout;[[BR]]
         int u_exit_status;[[BR]]
-        const char *argv[] = {""/usr/bin/udevinfo"", ""--root"", ""--query"", ""name"", ""--path"", NULL, NULL};[[BR]]
+        const char *argv[] = {""/sbin/udevadm"", ""info"", ""--root"", ""--query"", ""name"", ""--path"", NULL, NULL};[[BR]]
         GError *g_error;[[BR]]
 [[BR]]
         ret = NULL;[[BR]]
-        argv[5] = sysfs_path;[[BR]]
+        argv[6] = sysfs_path;[[BR]]
 [[BR]]
         g_error = NULL;[[BR]]
"	task	closed	normal		BOOK	SVN	medium	fixed