-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/01/08 12:12, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:59:36 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/01/08 04:11, Arthur Marsh wrote: >> [snip] >>> >>> If one shouldn't need to restart debian for the purging of >>> hal-device-manager to take effect, should I have run /etc/init.d/hal >>> restart ? >> That seems reasonable... > > When I see weird behavior of KDE with respect to devices (this happens > only very rarely), I do this: > > - log out/close the KDE session > - restart udev > - restart dbus (which, among other things, restarts hal) > - log in/start KDE again > > More generally speaking, you can use "checkrestart" from the > "debian-goodies" package to find out which services need to be restarted > after upgrades or other library-related changes to your system.
I'd say that checkrestart is an *extraordinarily* useful. Even, as the Subject says, the most useful. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH8oADS9HxQb37XmcRAjzSAJ9ehyHpfCUklF0UYqWPMhy9aovANQCgmZQV mg8GAoiaRWGiEzd0iK9bumk= =33ut -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]