On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:42:45 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 08:46:01 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:23:54 +0200 > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > On 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. > > > dpkg -l hal\* > > > pn hal <none> (no description > > available) > > pn hal-device-manager <none> (no description > > available) > > pn hal-doc <none> (no description > > available) > > pn hal-info <none> (no description > > available) > > pn halibut <none> (no description > > available) > > > > Not there. What else could cause the problem ?? > > The fact that hal is not installed causes the message. Something else > seems to assume that the haldaemon user exists. You can either ignore > the message, or install hal (why did you purge it?), As I recall I didn't purge it - it was removed when some other stuff got installed during a Kernel update. Again as I recall Hal wasn't (isn't??) compatible with something else kernel-related. or find out which > configuration file on your system contains a reference to haldaemon and > file a bug against the corresponding package. (I assume that if another > package has a configuration file that refers to the haldaemon user then > it should depend or maybe even pre-depend on the hal package.) > Well since the error seems to come from dbus, I would think it would be one of its config files...but there is no reference to hal or haldaemon in them. Very strange. Cheers Frank -- Change the world one loan at a time - visit Kiva.org to find out how -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]