Bug#351296: hald doesn't fork

2006-02-09 Thread Sjoerd Simons
tag 351296 +pending thanks, On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 11:19:14PM +0100, Mau wrote: > Interesting: > > # ps aux | grep hald > [no output] > # modprobe -r ide-floppy > # lsmod | grep floppy > floppy 56036 0 > # /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal start > # ps aux | grep hald > hal 9122

Bug#351296: hald doesn't fork

2006-02-09 Thread Mau
Interesting: # ps aux | grep hald [no output] # modprobe -r ide-floppy # lsmod | grep floppy floppy 56036 0 # /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal start # ps aux | grep hald hal 9122 0.0 0.3 5316 3868 ?Ss 22:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald root 9123 0.0 0.0 2728 968

Bug#351296: hald doesn't fork

2006-02-08 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:01:30PM +0100, Mau wrote: > Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > >Ok, full stop. This means it's not a communication with udev problem or > >anything like that. Could you send a strace and ltrace from hald ? > > > > Sjoerd > > > > > Here are some [sl]traces; a strace -f output i

Bug#351296: hald doesn't fork -- fails to find atapi zip drive

2006-02-07 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 02:13:40PM -0700, John A. Schmidt wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 02:08:38PM -0700, John A. Schmidt wrote: > > Package: hal > > Version: 0.5.6-2 > > Followup-For: Bug #351296 > > > > > > hald hangs right after probing for an ATAPI zip drive. The relevant > > section of t

Bug#351296: hald doesn't fork -- fails to find atapi zip drive

2006-02-07 Thread John A. Schmidt
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 02:08:38PM -0700, John A. Schmidt wrote: > Package: hal > Version: 0.5.6-2 > Followup-For: Bug #351296 > > > hald hangs right after probing for an ATAPI zip drive. The relevant > section of the output from hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes is shown > below: > Attached are

Bug#351296: hald doesn't fork -- fails to find atapi zip drive

2006-02-07 Thread John A. Schmidt
Package: hal Version: 0.5.6-2 Followup-For: Bug #351296 hald hangs right after probing for an ATAPI zip drive. The relevant section of the output from hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes is shown below: 11:54:47.863 [I] hald.c:95: Started addon hald-addon-storage for udi /org/freede sktop/Hal/device

Bug#351296: hald doesn't fork

2006-02-07 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:19:15PM +0100, Mau wrote: > Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > >On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:04:24PM +0100, Mau wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > >Does hal actually work after that (For example lshal shows a listing)? > > > > Sjoerd > > > > > no, it doesn't work: > > # lshal > er

Bug#351296: hald doesn't fork

2006-02-06 Thread Mau
Sjoerd Simons wrote: >On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:04:24PM +0100, Mau wrote: > > > [...] > >Does hal actually work after that (For example lshal shows a listing)? > > Sjoerd > > no, it doesn't work: # lshal error: libhal_ctx_init: (null): (null) Could not initialise connection to hald. Normal

Bug#351296: hald doesn't fork

2006-02-06 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:04:24PM +0100, Mau wrote: > Package: hal > Version: 0.5.6-2 > Severity: important > > > After update to 0.5.6-2 the /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal script locks up: > start-stop-daemon waits for hald process fork which apparently doesn't > occur. > /usr/sbin/hald actually for

Bug#351296: hald doesn't fork

2006-02-06 Thread Mau
Some more info - I noticed that hald dies after some minutes; tried to start hald manually by running # /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal start the process hangs at Starting Hardware abstraction layer: hald (no dot after this text) output of ps aux | grep hald first: root 5818 0.0 0.0 3216

Bug#351296: hald doesn't fork

2006-02-03 Thread Mau
Package: hal Version: 0.5.6-2 Severity: important After update to 0.5.6-2 the /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal script locks up: start-stop-daemon waits for hald process fork which apparently doesn't occur. /usr/sbin/hald actually forks but it seems unable to detach completely, even when explicitly calli