Re: [gentoo-user] hald won't start

[Mick]

On Saturday 04 August 2007 11:21, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007 10:52, Alessandro del Gallo wrote:
> > Mick ha scritto:
> > > On Monday 16 July 2007 10:26, Alessandro del Gallo wrote:
> > >> Mick ha scritto:
> > >>> Hi All,
> > >>>
> > >>> I noticed on a box of mine that hald won't start:
> > >>> ==========================================
> > >>> # /etc/init.d/hald restart
> > >>>  * Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon ...          [ !! ]
> > >>> ==========================================
> > >>>
> > >>> Confusingly, the logs don't show anything.  How do I troubleshoot
> > >>> this?
> > >>
> > >> I had the same problem:
> > >>
> > >> hald was sucking 99% cpu, removables devices didn't work
> > >> and launching hald from terminal with the option "hald --daemon=no
> > >> --verbose=yes" i discovered it was on a infinite loop echo-ing
> > >> something about rules so I got in /etc/udev/rules.d
> > >> and found (by probing one by one) 99-libgphoto2.rules that
> > >> was HALS's murder.
> > >
> > > Thank you Alessandro, what do you mean by probing - how did you probe
> > > them?
> >
> > moving it to /tmp and restart hald,
> > becouse the error I got when launching
> > # hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
> > is "Unhandled Rule (0)"
> > so deleting the rules (delete de rule, start hald, if it doesn't
> > works put the rule back , and move another) from etc/udev/rules.d
> > I debugged the problem, the bad rule was owned by gphoto2
>
> I've had a chance to get back to this machine and this is what it is
> showing: ==========================================
> # hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
> 11:16:08.930 [I] hald.c:533: hal 0.5.9
> 11:16:08.931 [I] hald.c:598: Will not daemonize
> 11:16:08.945 [I] hald_dbus.c:4807: local server is listening at
> unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-1LzyssbMzl,guid=faadd829b7aaff57dce0510046
>b451e8 11:16:09.174 [I] hald_runner.c:299: Runner has pid 31241
> 11:16:09.180 [W] ci-tracker.c:200: Could not get uid for connection:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner Could not get UID of
> name 'org.freedesktop.DBus': no such name
> 11:16:09.181 [E] hald_dbus.c:4462: Cannot get caller info for
> org.freedesktop.DBus
> Runner started - allowed paths
> are '/usr/libexec:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin'
> 11:16:09.196 [I] hald_runner.c:180: runner connection is 0x8096988
> 11:16:09.330 [I] mmap_cache.c:251: cache mtime is 1184442336
> *** [DIE] osspec.c:watch_fdi_files():349 : Unable to initialize inotify:
> Function not implemented
> ==========================================
>
> What do you make of this?

I removed /usr/share/hal and tried to remerge it.  It complained that I "MUST" 
compile pciutils without the zlib flag.  Not sure why pciutils has the zlib 
flag as a default, but if it is causing a problem with hal shouldn't it be 
removed?

Anyway, after masking zlib for pciutils and remerging both packages it now 
seems to be working again . . .

Thanks for your suggestions.
-- 
Regards,
Mick