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wevol

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Registered: 2009-12-18

Posts: 1

hal start failure,relogin gdm,and cant see gnome desktop

Hal start failure,relogin gdm,and cant see gnome desktop

When system start ,I can see gdm. When you enter a user and name password to login the desktop, the screen flash, immediately logout from the desktop,Back to the login interface.
manual start hal ,failure.

Thanks.

Last edited by wevol (2009-12-18 14:12:35)

Rvn

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From: Austria

Registered: 2009-05-01

Posts: 4

Re: hal start failure,relogin gdm,and cant see gnome desktop

I had a similar issue with HAL on my netbook (Lenovo S10e) running arch i686 kernelversion 2.6.32. When typing as root

$ /etc/rc.d/hal start

it failed.

I then killed the hald process via

$ killall hald

and now it starts fine.

Don't know what caused the problem, has there been a hal update recently?

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: hal start failure,relogin gdm,and cant see gnome desktop

There was a hal update. It doesn't like being upgraded while running. Stopping hal then dbus, then starting hal again should do the trick.

venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 1,002

Re: hal start failure,relogin gdm,and cant see gnome desktop

isnt hal getting deprecated in favour of device-kit

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theringmaster

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From: Air Force

Registered: 2007-07-16

Posts: 581

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Re: hal start failure,relogin gdm,and cant see gnome desktop

I upgraded hal and I can get it to start either. There doesn't seem to be a process hald on my system. What do I have to do to get it to start?

Edit: nevermind, upgrading the hal package again solved it

Last edited by theringmaster (2009-12-22 04:13:15)

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