On Monday 19 July 2010 15:37:06 lI wrote:
> On Monday 19 July 2010 08:32:48 Simon Geard wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 22:01 +0100, lI wrote:
> > > (b) with /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes
> >
> > Try running it from a terminal with --daemon=no, and see if you get any
> > interesting messages produced.
>
> yes loads. By the way by setup is x86_64 non-multilib (64-bit only)
>
>
> So far I tried the following:-
>
>
> -----------A)re-created haldaemon user and group I did not include this:-
>
> || [ $? == 9 ] (originally I I used the blfs instruction for hal-0.5.13
>
> which djid not include this.
>
> --------B) redid the install with hal-0.5.13 . (each time I removed the
> old version including the boot-script in /etc/init.d and the links in the
> rc.d's) plus all the stuff for hal
>
>
> same result.
>
>
> and /var/log/syslog is not much help. It just says
> ........starting the HAL daemon ......[FAIL]
> everything else is running d-bus, autofs, random-number-generator etc
>
> ---------------------
> I am using hal with hal-info-20091130.tar.gz (as per the blfs book)
> and I have autofs. I am wondering if these are the problems?
>
> When I did the re-install I dug all the stuff out for hal but was
> unsure where the stuff for hal-info-20091130 was (though I removed
> /user share/hal ). Is this where it leaves stuff?
>
> --------------------
>
> thanks for the advice and others you might think of will be appreciated.
>
I had these switches in the configure script
--with-{pci/usb}.ids=/usr (which should have been /usr/share). hal now
starts.
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