-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > Bummer. I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but > hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back > even as a tty. Seems a shame to go thru all that X upgrade stuff and > have something else fail. Here are the versions: > > sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2 > x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 > > This is the only error message in /var/log/messages: > > Sep 19 02:32:36 crowfix /etc/init.d/hald[4485]: ERROR: hald failed to start > > Nothing I can see in dmesg. The X log is pretty unhelpful: > > (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null) > > This is a ~amd64 system. It fails the same on both 2.6.30-r6 and > 2.6.31. > > I guess what I would really like is some way to get more info on why > hald won't start. I ran it manually with --verbose=yes --use-syslog > and got 8699 lines of syslog, only 9 of which had "error" in them. 7 > of those were for lid, battery, etc -- laptop stuff. Only 2 looked > like real errors: > > Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix hald[5888]: 02:46:45.936 [E] hald_runner.c:671: > Error running 'hald-addon-storage': org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected: > Connection was disconnected before a reply was received > Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix hald[5888]: 02:46:45.944 [E] hald_runner.c:671: > Error running 'hald-addon-hid-ups': org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected: > Connection is closed > > Does this mean anything to somebody? Is there a better way to get > more useful info from hald? Did I forget to read some update notice? >
While I don't have quite enough information to be sure, it looks like a problem with dbus. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to determine if this is the case, or what should be done if that *is* the case. - -- Jonathan Callen (ABCD) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkq09QcACgkQOypDUo0oQOr4mgCgkOZGlBg4x3G0tXcnpt7LwVcy g1sAnRqykMcPTyxvnUyohjn3mPzBL2po =MCaV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
