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 1Mp7cQ-00020U-31 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:37:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1ADC3E081D; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:37:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC4A5E081D for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:37:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3A4E64BAA for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:37:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.361 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.361 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.762, BAYES_00=-2.599] 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 XThLGsMoeiBz for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26DEC65292 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:37:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Mp7c9-0003g5-7P for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:37:05 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-219-69.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.219.69]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:37:05 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-219-69.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:37:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:36:40 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20090919100343.GA5777@crowfix.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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-219-69.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090919 Shredder/3.0pre In-Reply-To: <20090919100343.GA5777@crowfix.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 2fc03757-a323-4c1b-b150-2bbd1650c0df X-Archives-Hash: 055f23d8fc48355d4793b85126186cd8 On 09/19/2009 03:03 AM, 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 The hald initscript says it needs dbus. Is dbus running? Is dbus in your 'default' runlevel?