[gentoo-user] hald not starting

[gentoo-user] hald not starting

[Henk Boom]

Hi, recently (well, not that recently) I noticed that hald no longer
starts properly on boot, or when I try to start it through the init
script (/etc/init.d/hald start). Unfortunately, it gives me no error
message either on stdout (just the red !! instead of OK) or in
/var/log/messages. This might have happened when I updated one time,
but I don't know for sure, as I don't reboot my system enough to get a
precise idea of when it failed =(. Is there any way to get it to tell
me what's going wrong?

Have a nice day,
    Henk Boom
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Re: [gentoo-user] hald not starting

[Billy McCann]

Hi Henk.

A user in this mailing list had this same problem recently, I recall.
You can review the discussion here:
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/index_9.xml.  Look for the
thread untitled "hald won't start".  Perhaps you can find something
useful there.


Billy
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Re: [gentoo-user] hald not starting

[Henk Boom]

> A user in this mailing list had this same problem recently, I recall.
> You can review the discussion here:
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/index_9.xml.  Look for the
> thread untitled "hald won't start".  Perhaps you can find something
> useful there.

Thanks for the pointer. In case anyone else has this problem, the
solution was to have these two kernel options set:

CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y

Thanks for the help,
    Henk Boom
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