Re: hal / dbus upgrade

[Iain Buchanan]

Note to package maintainers!

On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 09:24 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> yesterday I upgraded hal from 0.5.12_rc1 to 0.5.13, and dbus from 1.2.12
> to 1.3.0.
> 
> Previously I could plug in my WM6 device, run pls, use synce-gvfs,
> pretty much everything except sync.
> 
> Now when I plug in my device, I don't get the usual eth2 interface.
> syslog shows:

...

> Aug  5 09:02:43 orpheus udev: renamed network interface eth1 to eth2

...

> then if I run pls I see:
> $ pls
> ** Message: Device /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_80_00_60_0f_e8_00 not 
> fully set in Hal, skipping
> ** Message: Odccm is not running, ignoring
> pls: Could not find configuration at path '(Default)'

It turns out in hal 0.5.13 the scripts directory has changed
form /usr/lib/hal/scripts to /usr/libexec/scripts.  If I pass the
correct --with-hal-addon-dir to configure, the interface now comes up :)

Not sure if this is every distro, or just Gentoo.

cya,
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

Someday your prints will come.
                -- Kodak


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