On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:32:17 +0200, Kristian Lampen wrote: > Florian Kulzer schrieb: >> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 22:20:58 +0200, Kristian Lampen wrote: >>> Florian Kulzer wrote: >>>> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 13:44:10 +0200, Kristian Lampen wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I use the recent sid installation, kernel 2.6.18 (update almost >>>>> everyday). As I tried to use my USB-Stick yesterday, I recognised that >>>>> kde does not mount it automatically (the same with cdrom). The last >>>>> time before two weeks all worked well. >>>>> >>>>> I found out, that the hal daemon crashes on startup: >>>>> >>>>> sid:~# /etc/init.d/dbus restart >>>>> Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon. >>>>> Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: hald. >>>>> Stopping system message bus: dbus. >>>>> Starting system message bus: dbus. >>>>> Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldrun-parts: >>>>> /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal exited with return code 1 >>>>> Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.
[...] >>> My MD5 is the same, but I recognised that HAL works if I use the >>> standard-kernel-image 2.6-686 (2.6.18+6), or the standart 2.6.20 kernel. >>> Usually I use a selfcompiled 2.6.18. I did´t change this kernel in the >>> last month, so the problem must be, that a updated version of hal needs >>> some other kernel options or modules to be active. >>> >>> Does anyone know which options/modules have to be enabled for HAL? >> You can try to edit /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal and change the line >> set -e >> to >> set -xe >> Then you can restart dbus and all commands in that script will be echoed >> to STDOUT as they are run. Maybe that will give you a clue where things >> go wrong. >> (A quick look in /usr/share/doc/hal did not tell me anything. NEWS.gz >> states that a kernel >= 2.6.17 is needed but I did not notice any >> specific modules being mentioned.) > > This is the output: > > sid:~# /etc/init.d/dbus restart [...] > Starting system message bus: dbus. > + case "$1" in > + do_start > + '[' '!' -d /var/run/hal ']' > + log_daemon_msg 'Starting Hardware abstraction layer' hald > + '[' -z 'Starting Hardware abstraction layer' ']' > + '[' -z hald ']' > + echo -n 'Starting Hardware abstraction layer: hald' > Starting Hardware abstraction layer: hald+ start-stop-daemon --start > --pidfile /var/run/hal/hald.pid --exec /usr/sbin/hald -- > run-parts: /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal exited with return code 1 > Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon. > > Nothing I can get from this output, just that the hald programm crashes > directly. Yes, unfortunately no new insights here. You might have to do a diff of the kernel configuration files to find out what you are missing. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian |
