Ron Murray [2011-02-20 22:58 -0500]: > Since the recent hal upgrade and the change to d-bus activation, hald > is not starting on bootup on at least three of my Debian > machines. Running 'lshal' as root starts it up just fine, and it works > normally thereafter as far as I can see.
So it behaves exactly as it is supposed to. Most programs don't need hal any more, so it shouldn't slow down boot and consume extra CPU/battery power in vain. What is the actual bug here? Does some of your application or hardware control not work properly any more? Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org