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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hald won't start
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:27:07
Message-Id: 200708041121.09945.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] hald won't start by Alessandro del Gallo
1 On Tuesday 17 July 2007 10:52, Alessandro del Gallo wrote:
2 > Mick ha scritto:
3 > > On Monday 16 July 2007 10:26, Alessandro del Gallo wrote:
4 > >> Mick ha scritto:
5 > >>> Hi All,
6 > >>>
7 > >>> I noticed on a box of mine that hald won't start:
8 > >>> ==========================================
9 > >>> # /etc/init.d/hald restart
10 > >>> * Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon ... [ !! ]
11 > >>> ==========================================
12 > >>>
13 > >>> Confusingly, the logs don't show anything. How do I troubleshoot this?
14 > >>
15 > >> I had the same problem:
16 > >>
17 > >> hald was sucking 99% cpu, removables devices didn't work
18 > >> and launching hald from terminal with the option "hald --daemon=no
19 > >> --verbose=yes" i discovered it was on a infinite loop echo-ing
20 > >> something about rules so I got in /etc/udev/rules.d
21 > >> and found (by probing one by one) 99-libgphoto2.rules that
22 > >> was HALS's murder.
23 > >
24 > > Thank you Alessandro, what do you mean by probing - how did you probe
25 > > them?
26
27 > moving it to /tmp and restart hald,
28 > becouse the error I got when launching
29 > # hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
30 > is "Unhandled Rule (0)"
31 > so deleting the rules (delete de rule, start hald, if it doesn't
32 > works put the rule back , and move another) from etc/udev/rules.d
33 > I debugged the problem, the bad rule was owned by gphoto2
34
35 I've had a chance to get back to this machine and this is what it is showing:
36 ==========================================
37 # hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
38 11:16:08.930 [I] hald.c:533: hal 0.5.9
39 11:16:08.931 [I] hald.c:598: Will not daemonize
40 11:16:08.945 [I] hald_dbus.c:4807: local server is listening at
41 unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-1LzyssbMzl,guid=faadd829b7aaff57dce0510046b451e8
42 11:16:09.174 [I] hald_runner.c:299: Runner has pid 31241
43 11:16:09.180 [W] ci-tracker.c:200: Could not get uid for connection:
44 org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner Could not get UID of
45 name 'org.freedesktop.DBus': no such name
46 11:16:09.181 [E] hald_dbus.c:4462: Cannot get caller info for
47 org.freedesktop.DBus
48 Runner started - allowed paths
49 are '/usr/libexec:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin'
50 11:16:09.196 [I] hald_runner.c:180: runner connection is 0x8096988
51 11:16:09.330 [I] mmap_cache.c:251: cache mtime is 1184442336
52 *** [DIE] osspec.c:watch_fdi_files():349 : Unable to initialize inotify:
53 Function not implemented
54 ==========================================
55
56 What do you make of this?
57 --
58 Regards,
59 Mick

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