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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:37:22
Message-Id: h93ita$lvc$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] hald failed to start by felix@crowfix.com
1 On 09/19/2009 03:03 AM, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
2 > Bummer. I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but
3 > hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back
4 > even as a tty. Seems a shame to go thru all that X upgrade stuff and
5 > have something else fail. Here are the versions:
6 >
7 > sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2
8 > x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2
9 >
10 > This is the only error message in /var/log/messages:
11 >
12 > Sep 19 02:32:36 crowfix /etc/init.d/hald[4485]: ERROR: hald failed to start
13
14 The hald initscript says it needs dbus. Is dbus running? Is dbus in
15 your 'default' runlevel?

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