Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update add hald default or boot?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>   I've wondered for a while whether the design intention of hald was
>> to be run at boot time or as a default level process? Googling for
>
> It's intended that you'll be running it at the default level.  Hal requires
> D-BUS, which means it needs to be run at the earliest after your local
> mounts, clock, etc. are started.  If you put them both into the boot
> runlevel I don't see why it would necessarily hurt, but it doesn't need to
> be there to work properly.
>
> --Mike
>
>

Thanks for the responses guys. I've always had it at default also. I
was just wondering.

Now, does hald need dbus? Require dbus? Interesting. I have dbus
installed but it's not running because it caused the Jack sound server
problems. Not even sure what it does or why I should need it but it
caused more problems for me and I couldn't tell what it helped with.

When should dbus be started if I run it? As a boot level process or
default also?

Thanks,
Mark