On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:07:49 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> n Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 21:25:29 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > For the past few weeks I've been seeing an error message fly by > > (doesn't seem to affect anything) and I curious what's going on. > > > > the message is: > > > > dbus unknown username "haldemon" in message bus configuration file. > > It should be "haldaemon". (I assume this is just a typo since you > probably could not copy/paste the message directly.) The relevant > configuration file is /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf: > > $ grep -A2 haldaemon /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf > <!-- Only root or user haldaemon can own the HAL service --> > <policy user="haldaemon"> > <allow own="org.freedesktop.Hal"/> > </policy> I have no hal.conf in that directory ?? > > Hald, the daemon that manages the Hardware Abstraction Layer, used to > run as the system user "hal". About a year ago (version 0.5.7.1-1) > this was changed to user "haldaemon" (maybe to free "hal" as a name > for normal users). It seems that this transition was not carried out > correctly on your system. The post-installation script of the hal > package is supposed to create the haldaemon user and group if they do > not exist. You can check if the user exists: > > $ grep hal /etc/passwd and no hal or haldaemon user??? Cheers Frank -- Change the world one loan at a time - visit Kiva.org to find out how
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