From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 29 09:16:25 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1FA106566C for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:16:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell0.rawbw.com (shell0.rawbw.com [198.144.192.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C0E8FC1B for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.syrec.org (stunnel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell0.rawbw.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o3T9GPQ5076197 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:16:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Message-ID: <4BD94E69.50308@rawbw.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:16:25 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100331) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Why hald causes system to hang up? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yuri@rawbw.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:16:26 -0000 I enabled hald: hald_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. This fixed the problem with kdm which otherwise always fails during the first login attempt. But hald caused few unintended consequences: periodic hangups: system becomes unresponsive for a few seconds around every 15 seconds, especially when I type in KDE konsole. string in konsole doesn't get selected any more when I double click on it. Anybody has any insight why hald would cause such consequences? Yuri