I will say that I haven't been able to get the latest version of Hal (in Lenny) to initialize on my AMD64 system at all. I'm currently running kernel 2.6.21; all hal dependencies are in and running.
Here is a printout of hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes: 15:20:01.725 [i] hald.c:529: hal 0.5.9.1 15:20:01.725 [i] hald.c:594: Will not daemonize 15:20:01.725 [i] hald_dbus.c:4807: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-AXTNAeSuNg,guid=7b22275b56e2c28a96cfe30046b10711 Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/lib/hal:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin' 15:20:01.728 [i] hald_runner.c:299: Runner has pid 30143 15:20:01.728 [W] ci-tracker.c:200: Could not get uid for connection: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner Could not get UID of name 'org.freedesktop.DBus': no such name 15:20:01.728 [E] hald_dbus.c:4462: Cannot get caller info for org.freedesktop.DBus 15:20:01.728 [i] hald_runner.c:180: runner connection is 0x650480 15:20:01.729 [i] mmap_cache.c:251: cache mtime is 1185664204 *** [DIE] osspec.c:watch_fdi_files():349 : Unable to initialize inotify: Function not implemented So I must say that I am waiting with bated breath for a fix to come through! LATER -- I got to reading through the existing bug a bit more thoroughly, and find myself moved to add the following details: 1. I am currently running Lenny on my AMD-64 machine. 2. I went so far as to try reinstalling hal several times from online download. Indeed, I even tried a different server, to rule out the possibility of corrupted file. No help at all. 3. I'm afraid that hal never has gotten to the point of having a pid on my machine. Every time aptitude tries to start it to "configure" it, it hangs. A consequence of this is that, every time I do an aptitude upgrade now, it has two programs sitting out there "partly configured" and useless: hal and kdebase, which depends on hal. Thanks *VERY* much for your efforts in this regard. If you have any further questions, please shoot them to me. :) -- ............................................................. Willy Gommel http://www.wg3.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
