XFCE4 Will Not Start HAL Daemon FAIL

Blake Gideon · 2009-09-15 04:48:32

EDIT:

Any help on getting Hal up and xfce to run is greatly appreciated.

Thanks:D

EDIT:

HAL is already running! I forgot it is in my rc.conf file. Sorry. However

[root]#startxfce4
/usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server
/usr/bin/startxfce4: line 76: exec: xinit: not found

Last edited by Blake Gideon (2009-09-15 05:51:20)

guzz46 · 2009-09-15 04:53:00

what happens if you type /etc/rc.d/hal restart

guzz46 · 2009-09-15 04:58:26

do you have ~/.xinitrc with something like exec ck-launch-session xfce4-session inside

sHyLoCk · 2009-09-15 04:59:38

Do this as normal user:

echo "exec startxfce4" >> ~/.xinitrc 

xinit

Blake Gideon · 2009-09-15 05:01:47

What is ~/?

if, that is home, I havent set up any users besides root.

Last edited by Blake Gideon (2009-09-15 05:02:17)

guzz46 · 2009-09-15 05:07:53

its your home directory, i would add a user then create ~/.xinitrc then try it

Blake Gideon · 2009-09-15 05:24:35

I created a normal user for myself and did the following:

sHyLoCk wrote:

Do this as normal user:
echo "exec startxfce4" >> ~/.xinitrc 

xinit

startxfce4 still does not work... Keep the ideas rolling in! Thanks.:D

guzz46 · 2009-09-15 05:40:30

did you do

nano ~/.xinitrc

as a normal user and add

exec ck-launch-session xfce4-session

Blake Gideon · 2009-09-15 05:43:06

HAL isnt working properly. When I tried to restart, it failed on stopping and starting.

Allan · 2009-09-15 05:43:59

Blake Gideon wrote:

[root]#startxfce4
/usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server
/usr/bin/startxfce4: line 76: exec: xinit: not found

pacman -Qo $(which xinit)
/usr/bin/xinit is owned by xorg-xinit 1.1.1-1

Do you have that installed?

Blake Gideon · 2009-09-15 06:00:11

Are you saying xfce didnt install Xorg? that wasnt mentioned in the wiki

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guzz46 · 2009-09-15 06:07:00

are you following the arch xfce wiki or the arch beginners guide?
because the beginners guide has you install xorg before a desktop environment

Blake Gideon · 2009-09-15 06:21:14

i'm back at the beginners guide. I hope installing xfce4 before x org wont cause any problems. will it??

guzz46 · 2009-09-15 06:26:50

not sure, i wouldn't think so

smartboyathome · 2009-09-20 23:44:58

Blake Gideon wrote:

HAL isnt working properly. When I tried to restart, it failed on stopping and starting.

I am having a similar issue. I had to downgrade to version 0.5.12git20090421.4fc367-2 (last version I had in my cache). Run this as root, and post the output of /tmp/hal.log:

hald --daemon=no 2>&1 | tee /tmp/hal.log

What I get when I run this is:

*** [DIE] hald_runner.c:runner_died():202 : Runner died

Is that what you get?

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