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Subject: Re: Hal and KDM breakage (was Re: KDE4 and input events stalled)
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>
> > I tweaked dependencies to force xdm to come up after hald, but even so,
> > that didn't help much: it seems that hald isn't really ready to provide
> > the services asked of it immediately.
>

The message "Starting hald" is misleading.  Hald doesn't
actually start until much, much later.


> X will start up, register with dbus and ask for info from hald.  If hald
> isn't up, or ready it will loop for a bit, waiting.  Once hald is up and
> registers with dbus it will proceed.  At least that is my recollection
> of how the code worked.
>

I waited 15 minutes; screen still dead.

Tim