Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:03:54 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: MandrakeRoot <mandrakeroot@lavabit.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: annoying HAL installation bug and workaround Message-ID: <1208304234.93515.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <4804EB9C.2070902@lavabit.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 20:53 +0300, MandrakeRoot wrote: > 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. I have never been able to reproduce this problem. The only way the haldaemon user would not be created during a package installation is if PACKAGE_BUILDING was set in the environment. This variable is not set by the pkg_* tools, but it is set by sysinstall. If you ran pkg_add from a shell outside of sysinstall, and did not have PACKAGE_BUILDING defined in your environment, you should have had the haldaemon user created. > > 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. The system Administration tools are currently broken on FreeBSD. Fixing these tools is one of the proposed Summer of Code projects as well as a general Idea. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkgFQmoACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4fbngCeOPvWlFydYpQhKs6HCQOfIjfU SigAn3v7PGQ/6F4QXmXKi6Eweh6Qi3uP =dszc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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