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?
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Regards,
Mick