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aluser

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Registered: 2011-01-16

Posts: 119

HAL daemon fails to start

I've seen a couple of threads with the same problem but have not been able to get this daemon started. I keep getting a 'failed' output after calling hal with sudo privilages in /etc/rc.d/
I am a group member of the optical and storage groups. I've tried adding hal only right after syslog-ng in the daemons array as well as dbus and hal respectively, but to no avail.
I've tried starting, stopping, restarting, and everything fails. The only success I've had was starting dbus but nothing else. 

I found it interesting that the ps aux command returns that the hal daemon is running which is odd after having failed starting/stopping it. It does'nt seem to work anyways.

[chuck616@experimental ~]$ ps -A | grep hal
  728 ?        00:00:00 hald
  729 ?        00:00:00 hald-runner
  758 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-inpu
  778 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
  781 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi

Anyone has any idea? I've also just noticed it says hal is deprecated does that mean hal is no unnecessary anymore? I'm only trying for it to recognize my CD drive and automount it to my desktop (using pcmanfm with the desktop switch)

gregor

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From: /planet/tmpfs

Registered: 2011-06-20

Posts: 175

Re: HAL daemon fails to start

did you load it in the " /etc/rc.conf " = Main Configuration for Arch Linux

DAEMONS=(dbus hal syslog-ng !network !dhcdbd !networkmanager @alsa @wicd preload moblock)  <==== from my /etc/rc.conf

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Archlinux (less = more)    + wmfs2-git

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: HAL daemon fails to start

How exactly did you try to start / stop / etc. it? Please post the command and output.
What's the output of 'rc.d list'? Is hal running?

Last edited by karol (2011-06-20 22:16:39)

aluser

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Registered: 2011-01-16

Posts: 119

Re: HAL daemon fails to start

I've manually added hal to the daemons array line in  /etc/rc.conf and it looks like this:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal network netfs crond gpm)

@karol

[chuck616@experimental Desktop]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/hal start
Password: 
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer                                                                [FAIL] 
[chuck616@experimental Desktop]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/hal stop
:: Stopping Hardware Abstraction Layer                                                                [FAIL] 
[chuck616@experimental Desktop]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/hal restart
:: Stopping Hardware Abstraction Layer                                                                [FAIL] 
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer     

warenoso

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From: Brisbane

Registered: 2010-08-06

Posts: 76

Re: HAL daemon fails to start

I've manually added hal to the daemons array line in  /etc/rc.conf and it looks like this:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal network netfs crond gpm)

@karol

[chuck616@experimental Desktop]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/hal start
Password: 
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer                                                                [FAIL] 
[chuck616@experimental Desktop]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/hal stop
:: Stopping Hardware Abstraction Layer                                                                [FAIL] 
[chuck616@experimental Desktop]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/hal restart
:: Stopping Hardware Abstraction Layer                                                                [FAIL] 
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer     

it does look to me that hal is up and running.    edit: did'nt scroll left

Last edited by warenoso (2011-06-20 22:42:32)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: HAL daemon fails to start

Unless you're still running the old pcmanfm-0.5.2, HAL does not enter the picture. The current pcmanfm uses udisks for mounting. So that's where you should focus on if mounting isn't working for you.