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dragos240

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 189

Failed to start HAL.

I set my archbox to boot the HAL damon when it booted up, me thinking it didn't work. I run it manually, to find out that it failed to start, without this I cannot start X. Could someone help me?

arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 597

Re: Failed to start HAL.

hai! did you put hal into the daeomons qeue in /etc/rc.conf? does it start, when u start it manually?

dragos240

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 189

Re: Failed to start HAL.

hai! did you put hal into the daeomons qeue in /etc/rc.conf? does it start, when u start it manually?

Yes, I added it to rc.conf, and it's in the daemons section, I actually noticed it start up this time, although I don't know if X will start. Wish me luck
By the way, Nice orly owl.

dragos240

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 189

Re: Failed to start HAL.

When I start X by running:
X
It just returns a black screen, I press ctrl + alt + backspace, and nothing, I also cannot go to another console, and yes I have a .xinitrc file. Could someone help me troubleshoot?

ruscook

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From: Sydney Australia

Registered: 2007-08-27

Posts: 105

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Re: Failed to start HAL.

Recently I've also had HAL fail a number of times. It seems the 1st or second boot after an upgrade pacman -Syu (so I'm not sure what's always changed) is the main time it happens. HAL also failed to manually start the last time. What I've done (that seems to have worked so far) is explicitly start DBUS before HAL (even though HAL is supposed to start it) and that is working (at the moment).

Russ

perbh

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From: Republic of Texas

Registered: 2005-03-04

Posts: 765

Re: Failed to start HAL.

for a kickoff - you dont start X by typing 'X' - you should do a 'startx' to ensure proper initialization

dragos240

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 189

Re: Failed to start HAL.

I will try that.

dragos240

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 189

Re: Failed to start HAL.

Okay when I startx, I get many errors:

Failed to load module "mouse"
Failed to load module "kbd"
No input driver matching "mouse"
No input driver matching "kbd"

dragos240

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 189

Re: Failed to start HAL.

Bump? Help?

oddsocks

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Registered: 2008-12-08

Posts: 47

Re: Failed to start HAL.

Okay when I startx, I get many errors:

Failed to load module "mouse"
Failed to load module "kbd"
No input driver matching "mouse"
No input driver matching "kbd"

Seems like from this you don't have xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse drivers installed.

Also when you say hal failed to start, is it because you ran /etc/rc.d/hal start after boot up. In that case, if hal has already started it will come up as [FAILED]

dragos240

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 189

Re: Failed to start HAL.

Hey thanks! I have no idea if it works, it doesn't show an X but it returns no errors. Odd.... thanks anyways, I'm going to follow the rest of the beginners guide.