Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 18:33:07 -0400 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: Peter Harrison <peter.piggybox@virgin.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hald doesn't start on boot... Message-ID: <AANLkTinGma_hGnuh7OYSCWdN0TcxqCOx3X1Kt66%2BOBWO@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101104231813.GA1491@ideapad.piggybox> References: <20101104213840.GA1484@ideapad.piggybox> <AANLkTi=Px-efruOxrRyzb45pLOzx%2BrFB9h%2Bwk8zaWksE@mail.gmail.com> <20101104231813.GA1491@ideapad.piggybox>
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On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Peter Harrison <peter.piggybox@virgin.net>wrote: > Thursday, 4 November 2010 at 17:56:56 -0400, Chris Brennan said: > > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Peter Harrison < > peter.piggybox@virgin.net>wrote: > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > I'm having a problem with hald. > > > > > > I have the following in my rc.conf: > > > > > > hald_enable="YES" > > > dbus_enable="YES" > > > > > > and I see a "starting hald" message on boot, with seemingly no errors. > Yet > > > afterwards hald is not running - but if I then run > > > > > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start > > > > > > hald starts without complaint, no messages, no problems. So why won't > it > > > start at boot? > > > > > > This is on 8.1-RELEASE. > > > > > > Does anyone have any ideas on how to track down what the problem is, > and > > > fix it? > > > > > > TIA. > > > > > > > > I just looked at my FBSD64-8.1 install and hald did successfully start on > > reboot. I'm not sure why it's failing to start for you. Have you tried > > modify the init script to include '--use-syslog' and check > > /var/log/messages for any messages? > > Thanks for coming back to me Chris. I added this to rc.conf: > > hald_flags="--use-syslog" > > but I get nothing logged when starting hald. The strange thing is that this > was working fine until after I ran my last portupgrade - but this didn't > touch hal. These are the ports that got updated (based on the packages from > my package building machine): > > ImageMagick-6.6.4.10.tbz > autoconf-2.68.tbz > automake-1.11.1.tbz > bash-4.1.9.tbz > cdrtools-3.00_1.tbz > cmake-2.8.2_1.tbz > conky-1.8.1.tbz > dbus-1.4.0.tbz > fetchmail-6.3.18.tbz > ffmpeg-0.6.1,1.tbz > firefox-3.6.12,1.tbz > fusefs-kmod-0.3.9.p1.20080208_7.tbz > iso-codes-3.21.tbz > libSM-1.1.1_3,1.tbz > libpciaccess-0.12.0.tbz > libtasn1-2.8.tbz > libxul-1.9.2.9_1.tbz > mencoder-1.0.r20100717_2.tbz > mplayer-1.0.r20100717_2.tbz > nss-3.12.8.tbz > orc-0.4.11.tbz > p5-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.031.tbz > p5-Digest-MD5-2.51.tbz > p5-IO-Compress-2.030.tbz > p5-URI-1.56.tbz > p5-WWW-Mechanize-1.66.tbz > p5-XML-Parser-2.40.tbz > p5-YAML-Tiny-1.44.tbz > p5-libwww-5.837.tbz > pciids-20101005.tbz > ruby+nopthreads-1.8.7.248_5,1.tbz > samba34-libsmbclient-3.4.9.tbz > sane-backends-1.0.21_2.tbz > schroedinger-1.0.10.tbz > sqlite3-3.7.3.tbz > vim-7.3.32.tbz > xpaint-2.9.6.3.tbz > youtube_dl-2010.10.03.tbz > > For shiggles, try reinstalling hald w/ 'portmaster -dRrt sysutils/hal' >From the portmaster manpage -t recurse dependencies thoroughly, using all-depends-list -d always clean distfiles [-R] -r rebuild port, and all ports that depend on it > > > > Did you know... > > > > If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, > > but what's worse is when you play it forward.... > > ...it installs Windows 2000 > > > > -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org > > <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Peter Harrison. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > >
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