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jai134

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Registered: 2008-11-26

Posts: 234

start hal fail

Hello. I'm running 2008.12. I cannot start hal. I have added dbus group. I think thats a good thing to do to get hal up and running. What shall I do to fix it.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: start hal fail

Why did you have to add dbus group?  It should be added automatically when the dbus-core package is installed, I think, you shouldn't have to do anything.  Maybe try removing the group you added manually and reinstalling dbus packages.

kludge

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Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 294

Re: start hal fail

Hello. I'm running 2008.12. I cannot start hal. I have added dbus group. I think thats a good thing to do to get hal up and running. What shall I do to fix it.

it's gonna be hard to help without knowing *why* hal won't start.  what error messages are you getting?  please post them.

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soupcan

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From: ?

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 268

Re: start hal fail

Why did you have to add dbus group?  It should be added automatically when the dbus-core package is installed, I think, you shouldn't have to do anything.  Maybe try removing the group you added manually and reinstalling dbus packages.

The dbus group wasn't added when I installed it. I had to do it manually, and no amount of reinstalls did it for me. It's a bug, insofar as I can tell. This was the error.
jai134, did you add dbus to the dbus group you created?

Last edited by soupcan (2009-01-19 03:48:02)

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: start hal fail

Which package did you reinstall -- dbus-core?  Because the dbus.install scrip included with dbus-core package is supposed to create group and user automatically: http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/d … iew=markup

Anyways, I remember having a similar problem when I selected dbus-core to be installed during initial installation -- I had to reinstall dbus-core package to make everything work correctly.  But perhaps this problem is different...

Last edited by fwojciec (2009-01-19 03:54:01)

soupcan

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From: ?

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 268

Re: start hal fail

Which package did you reinstall -- dbus-core?  Because the dbus.install scrip included with dbus-core package is supposed to create group and user automatically: http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/d … iew=markup

Anyways, I remember having a similar problem when I selected dbus-core to be installed during initial installation -- I had to reinstall dbus-core package to make everything work correctly.  But perhaps this problem is different...

I don't remember. But I do know that dbus and hal did not work I installed them. I may have used pacman -S hal, which listed dbus as a dependency. Perhaps dbus-core should be the dependency instead?

ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 261

Re: start hal fail

The bug is here (finally got round to filing it).  It looks like its to do with the order of installation if dbus-core is selected during the original installation.