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Hi i've just spent the last many hours installing my very first Archlinux distro. Everything has gone fine, i have installed gnome and have sound and a working x configuration. My only problem is that hal won't start and i get this output
starting hardware abstraction layer fail
any ideas?
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Try adding hal in the DAEMONS array in rc.conf and reboot
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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It is in there
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond alsa hal fam gdm)
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Hi
What see when execute this?:
/usr/sbin/hald
or better (if no errors see above):
/usr/sbin/hald --verbose=yes --daemon=no
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thanks djgera that seems to work
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It is in there
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond alsa hal fam gdm)
You've put hal too far back in the DAEMONS array. Try to have it started as soon as possible, e.g. immediatlely after syslog-ng.
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hi @all
you have to add you to the group hal
gpasswd -a BENUTZER hal
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für BENUTZER musst du halt dein name eintragen :-)
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I've done all of the above but when i try to open another harddrive, a cd or dvd and a usb sitick i get messages like this
org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)
any ideas?
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Thanks for all the replies.
I solved my problem with this config
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->
<!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/Pol … config.dtd">
<!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format -->
<config version="0.1">
<match user="myuser">
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*">
<return result="yes"/>
</match>
<match action="hal-storage-mount-fixed-extra-options">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
<match action="hal-storage-mount-removable-extra-options">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.*">
<return result="yes"/>
</match>
</match>
</config>
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hi @all
you have to add you to the group hal
gpasswd -a BENUTZER hal
I have no idea where people got that from.
The only essential group concerning HAL is "storage".
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