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#1 2009-04-28 11:49:48
- Dethredic
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HAL hangs on boot
So, when I turn on my computer HAL takes a good 15-20 seconds to start, which has doubled my start time, but if I restart it in terminal now it is done in a second. I have updated HAL and the problem still occurs.
Any ideas?
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#2 2009-04-28 12:18:58
- Wilco
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Re: HAL hangs on boot
You can start HAL in the background by using @hal instead of hal (add an @ before the command). Hope that helps!
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#3 2009-04-28 14:25:12
- bernarcher
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Re: HAL hangs on boot
You can start hal in the background by using @hal instead of hal (add an @ before the command). Hope that helps!
No good advice in most configurations. Hal is expected to properly set the hardware up, where the other daemons have to rely on. Thus it must be allowed to finish its operations before others try to access those devices.
This can (and did here) lead to a system standstill. Just never background hal. And have it started as early as possible, immediately after syslog-ng (also not backgrounded).
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal ... <other-daemons> ...)To know or not to know ...
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#4 2009-04-28 15:13:52
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Re: HAL hangs on boot
Well, before I did try backgrounding HAL, and then I just need to wait the 20 seconds before I can type in slim.
I had this: DAEMONS=(syslog-ng @network @btnx @mpd hal !netfs crond slim)
and I changed it to this: DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal @network @btnx @mpd !netfs crond slim)
Maybe that will help, I will restart and try right now.
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#5 2009-04-28 15:51:18
- Mr.Elendig
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Re: HAL hangs on boot
It might be dbus and not hal itself that is hanging. (One of the reasons for why I think starting dbus explicitly before hal is better than letting hal start it impicitly)
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#6 2009-04-28 16:03:43
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Re: HAL hangs on boot
Ok, the phone rang as I was rebooting, but I am 95% sure that it started fast. It defiantly didn't take 20 seconds like normal.
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#7 2009-04-29 11:41:06
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Re: HAL hangs on boot
So I turned on my comp this morning and it went back to the normal 20 seconds.
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#8 2009-04-30 11:36:04
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Re: HAL hangs on boot
It might be dbus and not hal itself that is hanging. (One of the reasons for why I think starting dbus explicitly before hal is better than letting hal start it impicitly)
Sorry I missed this, but on startup DBus does start before Hal.
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