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

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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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:
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# 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=faadd829b7aaff57dce0510046b451e8
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
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What do you make of this?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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