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alinuxfan

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Registered: 2009-11-02

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KDM has no keyboard or mouse input and HAL failed on boot

My First thought was that something happened to my xorg.conf so I moved it via a livecd and nothing changed.

This time I noticed that HAL failed to start

hardware abstraction layer fail
Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon fail
Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Server Configuration Daemon fail

I put in the livecd and chroot and ran a 'pacman -Syu' and 'pacman -S hal'

both performed.  While in here I ran an nvidia-xconfig just to be sure.

when I restarted, I got the same errors and no keyboard or mouse input at kdm.

My DAEMONS line in rc.conf looks like this:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network hal !networkmanager avahi-daemon avahi-dnsconfd alsa cdemud kdm wicd)

any ideas?

Last edited by alinuxfan (2009-11-02 03:38:28)

sHyLoCk

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Re: KDM has no keyboard or mouse input and HAL failed on boot

Put dbus before hal and see if it works.

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alinuxfan

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Re: KDM has no keyboard or mouse input and HAL failed on boot

tried it.  No luck.

On boot, I am seeing dbus load, but hal is not.

syslog-NG    DONE

d-bus system messagebus  DONE

HAL    FAIL

sHyLoCk

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Re: KDM has no keyboard or mouse input and HAL failed on boot

hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes

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alinuxfan

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Registered: 2009-11-02

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Re: KDM has no keyboard or mouse input and HAL failed on boot

how do I set that up?  should I do that from a chroot environment on the livecd?

sucks that I dont have any input when the system gets up.

I have an idea...I am going to remove kdm and see if I can just get into the console.

brb...

alinuxfan

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Registered: 2009-11-02

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Re: KDM has no keyboard or mouse input and HAL failed on boot

k, so now I can get to the login screen.  Can't log in as my normal user.  Says that it cannot cd to /home/adam

Logged in as root and ran

hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes

Got a bunch as an error, gonna try to type it as I see it

[DIE] osspec.c:osspec_init(443) : Unable to read /proc/mount

10:07:32:988 [i] mmap_cache.c:126 Regenerating fdi cache..
Could not get password database information for UID of current process: User "???" unknown or no memory to allocated to password entry
Could not get password database information for UID of current process: User "???" unknown or no memory to allocated to password entry

10:07:32:990 [E] hald_runner.c:882: Error running 'hald-generate-fdi-cache' : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
10:07:32:990 [i] mmap_cache.c:104: In regen_cache_cb exit_type=2, return_code=0
10:07:32:990 [E] mmap_cache.c:153: fdi cache regeneration failed!
10:07:32:990 [i] mmap_cache.c:156: fdi cache generation done
10:07:32:990 [i] mmap_cache.c:278: cache mtime is 0

Edit: Tried to startx and I can get to the desktop and I saw the wicd widget and everything and thought I was good until I tried to move the mouse or keyboard (plus I am logged in as root)

Last edited by alinuxfan (2009-11-02 05:15:39)