Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:36:40PM -0700, walt wrote:
> On 09/19/2009 03:03 AM, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
> > Bummer.  I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but
> > hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back
> > even as a tty.  Seems a shame to go thru all that X upgrade stuff and
> > have something else fail.  Here are the versions:
> >
> >    sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2
> >    x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2
> >
> > This is the only error message in /var/log/messages:
> >
> >    Sep 19 02:32:36 crowfix /etc/init.d/hald[4485]: ERROR: hald failed to start
>
> The hald initscript says it needs dbus.  Is dbus running?  Is dbus in
> your 'default' runlevel?

Hmmm ... yes, hald and dbus are in the default runlevel.  dbus is
running and periodically reloads its configuration.  There are quite a
few of these messages:

    Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix process: 5918: arguments to dbus_move_error() were incorrect, assertion "(dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest))" failed in file dbus-errors.c line 278.
    Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix This: is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
    Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix D-Bus: not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
    Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix libhal.c: 4494 : Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

I will have to look into this, and I have never liked lynx ... time to
fire up an old mac laptop, I think....  at least I have more sleep now
than I had at o-dark-thirty when I got back from a trip ...

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