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tockar

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-06-08

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HAL stopped working

Several days ago HAL stopped working on my computer.

[~] sudo /etc/rc.d/hal start
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer                                [FAIL]

When I run /usr/sbin/hald manually, it didn't show errors, but HAL still wasn't working. Starting hald with --verbose=yes didn't show nothing bad either.
When I disabled hald daemon mode, I saw this:

[~] sudo hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
23:42:23.700 [i] hald.c:634: hal 0.5.10
23:42:23.706 [i] hald.c:699: Will not daemonize
23:42:23.708 [i] hald_dbus.c:5284: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-PJUN5HwqLv,guid=7f93ea7ebaf6876f3436fa00473390cf
23:42:23.771 [E] hald_runner.c:294: Could not spawn runner : 'Failed to execute child process "hald-runner" (No such file or directory)'
32485: assertion failed "server->disconnected" file "dbus-server.c" line 722 function dbus_server_unref
  /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 [0xb7ddacde]
  /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 [0xb7dda0c7]
  /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 [0xb7dce7b7]
  /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3(dbus_server_unref+0xd7) [0xb7dc2347]
  hald [0x80509cd]
zsh: abort      sudo hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes

Hald-runner exist in /usr/lib/hal with all good permissions. When I run it:

[/usr/lib/hal] sudo ./hald-runner

** ERROR **: file main.c: line 250 (main): assertion failed: (dbus_address != NULL)
aborting...
zsh: abort      sudo ./hald-runner

And I don't know how to fix this. Even my linux motto "If you don't know what's wrong - recompile" failed. Any solutions?