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after last pacman -Syu i restarted and HAL failed with the following lines after
unknown hardware NFORCE realtek ALC655 rev0 ....
hardware is initializing using a guess method
/usr/sbin/alsactl failed to obtain info for control #11 (no such file or directory)
/usr/sbin/alsactl failed to obtain infor for control #12 ( no such file or directory)
then boot finishes to kde login screen but no input from keyboard or mouse movement so I have to restart with same problem
is it the kernel, nvidia, or Xorg? or something else?
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> is it the kernel, nvidia, or Xorg? or something else?
And what did you update?
Are you using testing?
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I did a pacman -Syu which updated 382 files
Xorg-server upgraded
Xorg-xinit upgraded
Nvidia-173xx upgraded
Kernel headers upgraded
Kernel126 upgraded
also in Xorg.0.log i get
EE config/HAL couldnt initialise context: unknown error (null)
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Hello people of the Arch way,
I've been using Arch for about a year now, and enjoy doing so - I like the Arch way, even though it means more learning.
I have a similar issue - I did a large Pacman -Syu update on 10th May, for the first time in a while - since 16th february, in fact (my PC was working, and I had a project deadline, so I left it alone).
HAL doesn't start at boot after that upgrade (there were other issue like loosing printer configurations, but I was able to sort that out - I hadn't put printers.conf in the pacman ignore list). Thankfully, my keyboard (ps/2) and mouse (USB) still work - as do my printer and soundcard. USB flash drives obviously don't mount though.
Haveing looked at a couple of old threads, I tried to start HAL manually as root (no Sudo set up yet):
[root@foodesktop foo]# /etc/rc.d/hal start
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer [FAIL]And I also tried a different comand:
[root@foodesktop foo]# hald --verbose=yes --daemon=noThe output of which ended like this:
16:47:04.329 [D] device_store.c:516: adding 0xc0f960 to (linux.sysfs_path,/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb3)
16:47:04.329 [i] hald.c:108: Added device to GDL; udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_1d6b_1_0000_00_12_0
16:47:04.329 [D] hotplug.c:500: events queued = 0, events in progress = 0
16:47:04.329 [D] hotplug.c:505: Hotplug-queue empty now ... no hotplug events in progress
16:47:04.329 [i] coldplug.c:94: creating HotplugEvent for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb3/3-0:1.0
16:47:04.329 [i] coldplug.c:285: new event (dev node from udev) '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb3/3-0:1.0' ''
16:47:04.329 [i] coldplug.c:319: new event (no dev node) '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb3/3-0:1.0'
16:47:04.329 [D] hotplug.c:476: checking ADD event /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb3/3-0:1.0
16:47:04.329 [D] hotplug.c:397: event /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb3/3-0:1.0: skip ourselves and all later events
16:47:04.329 [i] hotplug.c:145: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb3/3-0:1.0 is a device (subsystem)
16:47:04.329 [i] osspec.c:1017: hal_util_find_known_parent: '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb3/3-0:1.0'->'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb3'
16:47:04.329 [i] device.c:4997: add_dev: subsys=usb sysfs_path=/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb3/3-0:1.0 dev= parent_dev=0x00c0f960
16:47:04.335 [W] device_info.c:1136: Unhandled rule (779314532)!
Segmentation faultI upgraded the everything that had updates available, including the kernel and (xf86-ati) video drivers. If it would help I can post my pacman.log, but I don't want to clutter up the forum with huge amounts of code on my first post.
At a guess, I'd say that it's a problem caused by leaving the updates such a long time - but unfortunately that doesn't help me to fix the problem.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
EDIT - just remembered to mention that I'm not using Testing.
Last edited by jrevillug (2010-05-19 16:07:45)
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