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 1LqFmc-0005or-RT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FBFEE04EB; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:00:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C409E04C9 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:00:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A73865209 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:00:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.894 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.894 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.295, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id FlOFQmDtJRE2 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:00:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 358ED6509C for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:00:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LqFmN-0006Iq-2g for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:03 +0000 Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:03 +0000 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Another Jacked up mess on update - hal daemon Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:59:51 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87y6ugm0lk.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <877i20nfzz.fsf@newsguy.com> <49D7F2B0.5080707@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wGqQDWNlw3g85X3z/a2oKnowNDc= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 66026e42-d2e4-4ae2-b103-aa14ac7c7f4c X-Archives-Hash: c3af887ee7bd8809fc538ffec8ee4f34 Dale writes: > Since you can ssh into the system, could you remove hald from the > default runlevel and reboot? I'm not sure about the keyboard and mouse > after that tho. At least maybe you can get to a console. As reported in OP, I sshed in and stopped the start of hald.. that allowed boot to continue to login prompt but no mouse and keyboard. So a login shell won't be useful for now. > Did you run etc-update, or whatever config update tool you prefer, after > the updates? You may also want to emerge the old version of hal and try > that. Since you can get in, that may help. Of course, if it was me, > I'd mask that version and skip that one in the future. O_O Maybe the > next version will work better. No I didn't do the update... As reported in OP, I actually wasn't done with the follup chores to an update, and shutdown from a remote due to absentminded pea brainedness. I'm doing that now via ssh. Maybe things will improve...