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new2arch

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Registered: 2008-02-25

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[SOLVED] Hal problem

Hi all, recently upgraded filesystem and mkinitcpio.

[2009-01-19 12:10] upgraded filesystem (2008.07-1 -> 2009.01-1)
[2009-01-19 12:10] upgraded mkinitcpio (0.5.20-1 -> 0.5.21-1)

Merged the /etc/group.pacnew and rebooted.

Now usb-stick and optical aren't available. HAL doesn't (?) start although during booting it seems to start as a daemon but when I try to start/ restart HAL by issuing /etc/rc.d/hal start (as root) it fails.
I can confirm that I am a member of the optical and storage group...

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

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SOLVED:
Stupido stupido me! I simply forgot to add "hal" in /etc/group when I merged pacsave...

Last edited by new2arch (2009-01-19 16:22:10)

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Hal problem

because you merged a default /etc/group file with you current group file. BIG MISTAKE
you can try to add missing groups and then add your username to them.
also i think /etc/group- is a backup and you can rename it to /etc/group

Last edited by wonder (2009-01-19 11:58:50)

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new2arch

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Registered: 2008-02-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Hal problem

because you merged a default /etc/group file with you current group file. BIG MISTAKE
you can try to add missing groups and then add your username to them.
also i think /etc/group- is a backup and you can rename it to /etc/group

I added the missing entries from my group file to group.pacsave file, and then moved the pacsave file to /etc/group.

I compared with /etc/group- and those files are identical.

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Hal problem

congrats. now is working?

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new2arch

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Re: [SOLVED] Hal problem

congrats. now is working?

I should have been more clear - what I meant to say is that I manually added the missing entries into the group.pacsave file before replacing the original group file with it, but HAL does not work.

new2arch

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Re: [SOLVED] Hal problem

Downgrading the packages (filesystem + mkinitcpio) don't help either...
Weird!