Harry Putnam wrote: > Once again I find myself with a big mess following an update world. > This time I was probably out of date by more than 1 mnth, probably > less than 2. > > On first reboot the bootup proceeds well into level 3, right up to > starting hal daemon. > > There is sets.... forever. > > Since its past the point where sshd is started I can ssh into the > machine. > > I thought to maybe stop hald then attempt a restart. It appears > halting hald did allow the boot to continue, but it will not start. > > >
Since you can ssh into the system, could you remove hald from the default runlevel and reboot? I'm not sure about the keyboard and mouse after that tho. At least maybe you can get to a console. Did you run etc-update, or whatever config update tool you prefer, after the updates? You may also want to emerge the old version of hal and try that. Since you can get in, that may help. Of course, if it was me, I'd mask that version and skip that one in the future. O_O Maybe the next version will work better. Hope that helps, a little anyway. Dale :-) :-)
