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felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> Bummer. I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but |
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> hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back |
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> even as a tty. Seems a shame to go thru all that X upgrade stuff and |
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> have something else fail. Here are the versions: |
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> sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2 |
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> x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 |
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> This is the only error message in /var/log/messages: |
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> Sep 19 02:32:36 crowfix /etc/init.d/hald[4485]: ERROR: hald failed to start |
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> Nothing I can see in dmesg. The X log is pretty unhelpful: |
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> (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null) |
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> This is a ~amd64 system. It fails the same on both 2.6.30-r6 and |
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> 2.6.31. |
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> I guess what I would really like is some way to get more info on why |
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> hald won't start. I ran it manually with --verbose=yes --use-syslog |
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> and got 8699 lines of syslog, only 9 of which had "error" in them. 7 |
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> of those were for lid, battery, etc -- laptop stuff. Only 2 looked |
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> like real errors: |
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> Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix hald[5888]: 02:46:45.936 [E] hald_runner.c:671: Error running 'hald-addon-storage': org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected: Connection was disconnected before a reply was received |
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> Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix hald[5888]: 02:46:45.944 [E] hald_runner.c:671: Error running 'hald-addon-hid-ups': org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected: Connection is closed |
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> Does this mean anything to somebody? Is there a better way to get |
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> more useful info from hald? Did I forget to read some update notice? |
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While I don't have quite enough information to be sure, it looks like a |
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problem with dbus. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to determine if this |
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is the case, or what should be done if that *is* the case. |
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Jonathan Callen (ABCD) |
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