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M177ER

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 148

[solved] Problems with HAL

I am having problems with HAL. I first noticed it when trying to log out of XFCE an it was asking for my password and then I would see this message when X stopped:

xfsm-shutdown-helper.c:134: Failed to contact hal: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .services files

Hal is listed in my daemons of rc.conf

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond hal @fam @alsa)

I am part of the power group

[ryan ~]$ groups
disk lp wheel log locate network video audio optical storage scanner power users

I think there is something wrong with hal since it's not loading at boot and I can't start it once logged in

[ryan ~]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/hal stop
:: Stopping Hardware Abstraction Layer                         [FAIL] 
[ryan ~]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/hal start
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer                         [FAIL]

I don't know what to do. Searching for the 'xfsm-shutdown-helper' error says to look in .xsession-errors but I can't find that file. HAL should be loading at boot though and it is not so I think that is the cause of the error anyway.

This all started when I was trying to clean up goup.pacnew and gshadow.pacnew files.

Edit: solved

Last edited by M177ER (2008-10-07 15:22:31)

pointone

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From: Waterloo, ON

Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 379

Re: [solved] Problems with HAL

Check /var/log/daemon.log for errors related to HAL.

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M177ER

Member

Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 148

Re: [solved] Problems with HAL

Check /var/log/daemon.log for errors related to HAL.

Thanks but there was nothing there about hal.

My problem is solved though. hal was updated to version 0.5.11-4 and it is loading during boot and my error message on shutdown is gone.