On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:04:24PM +0100, Mau wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.6-2
> Severity: important
>
>
> After update to 0.5.6-2 the /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal script locks up:
> start-stop-daemon waits for hald process fork which apparently doesn't
> occur.
> /usr/sbin/hald actually forks but it seems unable to detach completely,
> even when explicitly calling it with the '--daemon=yes' option.
>
> Passing the dirty '--background' option to start-stop-daemon allowed me to
> start the system (without that it hung at the 'Starting Hardware abstraction
> layer: hald' message) with functional dbus+hal.
Does hal actually work after that (For example lshal shows a listing)?
Sjoerd
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