From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mp1cj-0001St-E0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:13:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68B3BE079F; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:13:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4936DE079F for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:13:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-173-71-201-218.clppva.fios.verizon.net [173.71.201.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C02C5678A2 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:13:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4AB4F508.7030605@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:13:12 -0400 From: "Jonathan Callen (ABCD)" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090902) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start References: <20090919100343.GA5777@crowfix.com> In-Reply-To: <20090919100343.GA5777@crowfix.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 789784e1-aebb-4442-815a-a587c6fd2968 X-Archives-Hash: b54096819501d36af0dcfaa5212fd8ac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 felix@crowfix.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 > > Nothing I can see in dmesg. The X log is pretty unhelpful: > > (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null) > > This is a ~amd64 system. It fails the same on both 2.6.30-r6 and > 2.6.31. > > I guess what I would really like is some way to get more info on why > hald won't start. I ran it manually with --verbose=yes --use-syslog > and got 8699 lines of syslog, only 9 of which had "error" in them. 7 > of those were for lid, battery, etc -- laptop stuff. Only 2 looked > like real errors: > > Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix hald[5888]: 02:46:45.936 [E] hald_runner.c:671: Error running 'hald-addon-storage': org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected: Connection was disconnected before a reply was received > Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix hald[5888]: 02:46:45.944 [E] hald_runner.c:671: Error running 'hald-addon-hid-ups': org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected: Connection is closed > > Does this mean anything to somebody? Is there a better way to get > more useful info from hald? Did I forget to read some update notice? > While I don't have quite enough information to be sure, it looks like a problem with dbus. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to determine if this is the case, or what should be done if that *is* the case. - -- Jonathan Callen (ABCD) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkq09QcACgkQOypDUo0oQOr4mgCgkOZGlBg4x3G0tXcnpt7LwVcy g1sAnRqykMcPTyxvnUyohjn3mPzBL2po =MCaV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----