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dmwdp001

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Registered: 2008-12-07

Posts: 5

HAL won't start (false alarm)

I recently installed Arch on a new computer.  The install went without a hitch, but once I rebooted into KDE4.1 HAL wouldn't work preventing me from mounting my CD/DVD drives.

When I boot, it says D-Bus and HAL start OK, but once I get into KDE there's no sign of it.  I tried to start it manualy but it fails, I tried to stop it incase it was already running, and it failed again. I've confirmed D-Bus is working.

I've checked my fstab, the optical drives where commented out, and I even went so far as to remove them all together but no luck.

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


UUID=2ed507c6-5ec1-465d-8922-f37e96f39168 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=51324a6c-2243-4359-b055-c7a53031f537 / ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 1
UUID=68274130-ad54-43d7-a71a-6b4cf63b4f16 /home ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 1
UUID=9bc1e8e3-1d97-45bc-9407-5c961d48344e swap swap defaults 0 0

#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#

MODULES=(8139cp 8139too mii snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore !pcspkr)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond alsa hal fam kdm)

Last edited by dmwdp001 (2008-12-08 18:37:12)

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: HAL won't start (false alarm)

Kill hall daemon if it's running and try running:

hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes

Maybe this will help you to identify the problem.

Last edited by fwojciec (2008-12-08 17:29:34)

dmwdp001

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Registered: 2008-12-07

Posts: 5

Re: HAL won't start (false alarm)

It appears that hal is working, I can plug in a flash drive and It'll work just fine.  It seems the matter is limited to my optical drives.
I don't know if this is at all relevent, but my optical drives are IDE and I'm running Arch off of a USB drive.

The output of the command above is:

13:07:44.511 [i] hald.c:669: hal 0.5.11
13:07:44.511 [i] hald.c:734: Will not daemonize
13:07:44.511 [i] hald_dbus.c:5381: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-sXWsttPMN0,guid=8baf3246470ecbec7df04676493d6270
13:07:44.515 [E] ck-tracker.c:367: Error doing GetSeats on ConsoleKit: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service files
13:07:44.515 [E] ck-tracker.c:792: Could not get seats and sessions
13:07:44.515 [W] hald_dbus.c:5806: Could not initialize seats and sessions fromConsoleKit
Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/lib/hal:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin'
13:07:44.517 [i] hald_runner.c:301: Runner has pid 5688
13:07:44.517 [i] hald_runner.c:182: runner connection is 0x9e431b0
13:07:44.523 [W] osspec.c:373: Unable to open /proc/mdstat: No such file or directory
13:07:44.523 [D] util_helper.c:124: drop_privileges: could not set group id

dmwdp001

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Registered: 2008-12-07

Posts: 5

Re: HAL won't start (false alarm)

Oops!

It turns out that this was a false alarm. there's something wrong with the CD I was trying to mount, I put in other disks and it's working fine.

I'm a bit red in the face right now.

Sorry if I wasted anyone's time.

Thank You