On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 20:46:22 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:07:49 +0200 Florian Kulzer 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 ??
[...] > > 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??? Then maybe you are not using the "hal" package at all. What is the output of "dpkg -l hal\*"? -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
