hal is run through D-Bus activation now, instead of an init/upstart script. This is because booting/X/GNOME does not need hal any more these days.
If an app wants to connect to hal, it should get auto-spawned. This works fine for gnome-power-manager and pitivi at least. So perhaps x-p-m does something more cautious, like testing if hal is running before connecting to it (this doesn't work -- it just needs to go ahead connecting). Does someone have a debug output of x-p-m? How is that done? ** Summary changed: - [Lucid Xubuntu] power manager fails to start because HAL daemon is not running + [Lucid Xubuntu] power manager fails to dbus-activate hal -- [Lucid Xubuntu] power manager fails to dbus-activate hal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507097 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
