Package: hal Version: 0.5.9.1-2 Severity: important Starting hal takes on the order of two minutes on my laptop. Running hald --verbose=yes --use-syslog
some of the relevant lines of output include: Jul 26 20:38:59 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:38:59.478 [I] acpi.c:1337: acpi_add: acpi_path=/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0 acpi_type=0, parent=0x00000000 Jul 26 20:39:51 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:39:51.691 [D] acpi.c:176: Current voltage is unknown, smaller than 50% or greater than design Jul 26 20:39:51 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:39:51.695 [I] acpi.c:1337: acpi_add: acpi_path=/proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC acpi_type=3, parent=0x00000000 Jul 26 20:40:27 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:40:27.715 [D] acpi.c:176: Current voltage is unknown, smaller than 50% or greater than design Jul 26 20:40:27 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:40:27.729 [I] hald_dbus.c:4766: *************************** Jul 26 20:40:27 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:40:27.729 [I] hald_dbus.c:4767: ********* got a connection 80ce990 Jul 26 20:40:27 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:40:27.729 [I] hald_dbus.c:4768: *************************** Jul 26 20:40:47 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:40:47.795 [D] acpi.c:176: Current voltage is unknown, smaller than 50% or greater than design So there are delays of up to nearly a minute between several of these lines. If you'd like me to send the whole log for the period I was bringing up hald, I can... -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'oldstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.104 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.1.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii hal-info 20070618-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f ii libc6 2.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3.4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070712-1 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.12-1+b1 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage1 0.5.9.1-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal1 0.5.9.1-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libsmbios1 0.13.6-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070712-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-7 userspace USB programming library ii libvolume-id0 0.105-4 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii pciutils 1:2.2.4-1 Linux PCI Utilities ii udev 0.105-4 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii usbutils 0.72-8 Linux USB utilities Versions of packages hal recommends: ii eject 2.1.5-2 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]