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?
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