2011/11/26 Juergen Harms <[email protected]>: > I successfully installed alpha 1 from the brand new iso DVD. Install goes > smoothly, but after booting the system, I come to a screeming stop: > > When I try to run urpmi (from a console) for installing update packages, > urpmi refuses with the message that the hal daemon is not running. > > rpm -q in fact confirms that hal is not installed (I had done a perfectly > standard KDE install). Doing "urpmi hal" gives the evident result: it lists > 9 packages to be installed (among which is hal) but then fails because the > hal daemon is not running. > > That puts a stop to any further testing. Is there a work around that allows > to install hal while the hal daemon is not running?
Yes. :) I ran into the same, then I looked at the media and realized that there is "cdrom" still activated (the installation medium). This could not be found because HAL was not running. De-activating this medium worked around the problem, urpmi installed (almost) all 240 updates. -- wobo
