On Tuesday 17 July 2007 10:52, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > Mick ha scritto: > > On Monday 16 July 2007 10:26, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > >> Mick ha scritto: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I noticed on a box of mine that hald won't start: > >>> ========================================== > >>> # /etc/init.d/hald restart > >>> * Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon ... [ !! ] > >>> ========================================== > >>> > >>> Confusingly, the logs don't show anything. How do I troubleshoot this? > >> > >> I had the same problem: > >> > >> hald was sucking 99% cpu, removables devices didn't work > >> and launching hald from terminal with the option "hald --daemon=no > >> --verbose=yes" i discovered it was on a infinite loop echo-ing > >> something about rules so I got in /etc/udev/rules.d > >> and found (by probing one by one) 99-libgphoto2.rules that > >> was HALS's murder. > > > > Thank you Alessandro, what do you mean by probing - how did you probe > > them?
> moving it to /tmp and restart hald, > becouse the error I got when launching > # hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes > is "Unhandled Rule (0)" > so deleting the rules (delete de rule, start hald, if it doesn't > works put the rule back , and move another) from etc/udev/rules.d > I debugged the problem, the bad rule was owned by gphoto2 I've had a chance to get back to this machine and this is what it is showing: ========================================== # hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes 11:16:08.930 [I] hald.c:533: hal 0.5.9 11:16:08.931 [I] hald.c:598: Will not daemonize 11:16:08.945 [I] hald_dbus.c:4807: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-1LzyssbMzl,guid=faadd829b7aaff57dce0510046b451e8 11:16:09.174 [I] hald_runner.c:299: Runner has pid 31241 11:16:09.180 [W] ci-tracker.c:200: Could not get uid for connection: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner Could not get UID of name 'org.freedesktop.DBus': no such name 11:16:09.181 [E] hald_dbus.c:4462: Cannot get caller info for org.freedesktop.DBus Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/libexec:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin' 11:16:09.196 [I] hald_runner.c:180: runner connection is 0x8096988 11:16:09.330 [I] mmap_cache.c:251: cache mtime is 1184442336 *** [DIE] osspec.c:watch_fdi_files():349 : Unable to initialize inotify: Function not implemented ========================================== What do you make of this? -- Regards, Mick
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