Op zaterdag 26 november 2011 12:47:52 schreef Wolfgang Bornath: > 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.
Perhaps the cdrom could be found with udev directly (not using hal?)
