From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 18:23:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B180106566C for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:23:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mandrakeroot@lavabit.com) Received: from karen.lavabit.com (karen.lavabit.com [72.249.41.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B098FC12 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:23:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mandrakeroot@lavabit.com) Received: from e.earth.lavabit.com (e.earth.lavabit.com [192.168.111.14]) by karen.lavabit.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7CCC869F for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:53:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 192.168.1.6 (79-116-221-162.dynamic.brasov.rdsnet.ro [79.116.221.162]) by lavabit.com with ESMTP id JIOHQV92Y1G7 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:53:08 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lavabit; d=lavabit.com; b=ZZBj21cngM07xgU8mdui4oKwF5O2OLrVIYy+2Dk3Xu5iwptcesFLI2Ur8gLXX9dtwZdiP+ViJdivzTXAXrlB3oQXkYyECJdtjZM3G0j9osk9hEiomegFHzoSvdSasFqaMpQ5MccJqs8EjdopmqYL63778AvfSqk4IKSZB2hudcE=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; Message-ID: <4804EB9C.2070902@lavabit.com> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:53:32 +0300 From: MandrakeRoot User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: annoying HAL installation bug and workaround X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:23:27 -0000 Hello. I have installed Gnome on my Freebsd 7 using pkg_add gnome2 which is the recommended way. In the Gnome Freebsd project documentation . The problem is that the hald package is poorly installed by this method and this issue i found also on some obscure older forums. What happens in fact it is that the haldaemon user is not created and hald cannot start. What is annoying is that although i launched hald with the verbose option it did not spit out any error until i decided to launch it overriding the daemonise option. On that older forum it was assumed that it was a bug in the sysinstall procedure but in fact i think it comes from installing from the binaries as i did not install gnome2 from the beginning on my comp . The workaround i used and which is not my discovery was to uninstall the package and reinstall from source. I think this is a bug that should be solved as soon as possible as HAL seems to be fundamental for a good functioning of gnome. Strangely another issue was suddenly solved . I had not been able previously to access the System/Administration menus, but after i installed HAL again from source i was able to enter the menus which had been previously responding with a " you are not authorised ,blah , blah...." message. Now everything seems to work fine. My usb flash is presented in full glory on my desktop the same as my cdrom. Anyway I noticed that even now the hald man pages are missing... Thanks.