Dear everybody, I seem to have a problem with the hal daemon in Debian Sarge. I think that hald doesn't start or it dies immediately.
Let me first explain that I am working on this since my understanding is that any device manager (g-v-m, ivman, pmount, ...) needs hal. In the end, all I want is to have a mountpoint in /media with a recognizable name when I insert a USB stick and a way for a user to mount the volume without the need of an fstab entry. Now back to the main issue. roccia:~# uname -a Linux roccia 2.6.19.2 #2 Thu Feb 8 02:06:19 CET 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Package versions (as I said, this is the latest sarge release): udev 0.056-3 hal 0.4.7-3sarge1 dbus-1 0.23.4-1 First, after boot, there's no "hald" process running on my system. If I run, as root, roccia:~# hald --daemon=yes --drop-privileges --verbose=yes 08:44:11.080 [I] hald.c:394: hal 0.4.7 08:44:11.080 [I] hald.c:396: Will daemonize 08:44:11.080 [I] hald.c:406: Becoming a daemon but hald doesn't seem to be running after that: roccia:~# ps ax |grep hal 6287 pts/1 R+ 0:00 grep hal and hal-device-manager does not work roccia:~# hal-device-manager Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/hal-device-manager", line 8, in ? import gtk File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 37, in ? from _gtk import * If I do instead: roccia:~# hald --daemon=no --drop-privileges --verbose=yes 08:48:20.505 [I] hald.c:394: hal 0.4.7 08:48:20.505 [I] hald.c:398: Will not daemonize 08:48:20.507 [I] linux/osspec.c:219: Mountpoint for sysfs is /sys Segmentation fault Any comments? Domande: 1) where does hald writes its logs? I read about an option --use-syslog , but it is not recognized on my system 2) is this a known dbus/udev/hal issue in Debian sarge? 3) I am willing to upgrade to testing, but only if I am sure that this would solve the issue... Thanks a lot. Matteo _______________________________________________ pluto-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Per gestire la propria iscrizione alla lista: http://lists.pluto.it/listinfo/pluto-help ------------------------------------------------------ Con Prometeo prestiti senza spese fino a 31.000 Euro! http://click.libero.it/webnation06marz07