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Koonboi

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From: El Ghetto

Registered: 2008-08-14

Posts: 59

Hal stopped working.

For some reason Hal has completely stopped working, and when I restart it, or try to start it, it says it has failed. It just won't start. Any help?

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sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: Hal stopped working.

2001 A Space Odyssey:
HAL: It can only be attributable to human error.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

There should be a log somewhere with the reason why it did not start.

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Factory

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Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 108

Re: Hal stopped working.

I experienced the same thing with the latest update to dbus.

Run `ps -e |grep hal` and see if hald is running. If so, `pkill hald`. Then stop the dbus daemon `/etc/rc.d/dbus stop`. Try to start the hal daemon once more `/etc/rc.d/hal start`.

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Koonboi

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From: El Ghetto

Registered: 2008-08-14

Posts: 59

Re: Hal stopped working.

I experienced the same thing with the latest update to dbus.

Run `ps -e |grep hal` and see if hald is running. If so, `pkill hald`. Then stop the dbus daemon `/etc/rc.d/dbus stop`. Try to start the hal daemon once more `/etc/rc.d/hal start`.

IT WORKED!!!! Is it permanent?

Never mind. It gave me this warning.

Unable to mount "IPOD":

Cannot obtain lock on /media/.hal-mtab

EDIT- I fixed it again.....

Last edited by Koonboi (2008-08-24 04:03:15)

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