On 5/29/07, Jordan Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had a lot of success with gnome and BLFS. I'm typing in it in > firefox right now, however HAL seems to be failing. here's how my day > went: > <code> > > # ps -A | grep dbus \ > 4430 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon > 4792 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon > 4793 tty1 00:00:00 dbus-launch > # ps -A | grep hal > # hald > # ps -A | grep hal > # hald --daemon=no
Do you actually have two hal daemons running? You would want to stop one since I imagine that they'll collide. Especially if they're both trying to do stuff like write lock files. > Run started hal-storage-cleanup-all-mountpoints (10000) (0) > ! full path is '/usr/lib/hal/hal-storage-cleanup-all-mountpoints', > program_dir is '/usr/lib/hal' > 27346: XYA attempting to get lock on /media/.hal-mtab-lock > 27346: XYA got lock on /media/.hal-mtab-lock > in hal-storage-cleanup-all-mountpoints > org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure > Cannot open /media/.hal-mtab <snip> > # ls -dl /media > drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 128 May 29 12:25 /media > # echo "it's only like this to get hal working" > it's only like this to get hal working So, are you saying that if you make /media world writable, things work? What version of hal is this? Could you show the output from "ls -al /media"? -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
