On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 03:17:45PM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote:
> Hi, I don't know whether acpid or hal is to blame for this, but since
> the last upgrade of hal, acpid has stopped working, complaining that
> it cannot access /proc/acpi/events, while lsof reveals that this file
> is used by hald-addon-acpi, which doesn't seem to be documented
> anywhere.
>
> If hald-addon-acpi is meant to replace acpid, there should be some
> hints about how this can be done, e.g. what do I need to do to make
> the powerbutton event trigger the hibernate script...
The hal acpi addon can use either the /proc interface or the events file
provided by acpid. Unfortunately when the acpid event socket goes away the
addon immediatly connects to the proc interface, thus blocking acpid from
connecting.
I need to think about the ``correct'' fix for this...
Sjoerd
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