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#1 2009-03-18 03:52:04

verden
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hal

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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#2 2009-03-18 04:12:19

Inxsible
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Re: hal

Try adding hal in the DAEMONS array in rc.conf and reboot


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#3 2009-03-18 04:37:41

verden
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Re: hal

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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#4 2009-03-18 05:08:13

djgera
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Re: hal

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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#5 2009-03-18 10:13:33

verden
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Re: hal

thanks djgera that seems to work

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#6 2009-03-18 10:50:21

bernarcher
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Re: hal

verden wrote:

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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#7 2009-03-18 14:03:04

schaaaf
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Re: hal

hi @all
you have to add you to the group hal
gpasswd -a BENUTZER hal

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#8 2009-03-18 14:05:06

schaaaf
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Re: hal

für BENUTZER musst du halt dein name eintragen :-)

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#9 2009-03-19 09:31:32

verden
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Re: hal

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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#10 2009-03-19 12:11:39

dobedo
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#11 2009-03-20 08:32:18

verden
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Re: hal

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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#12 2009-03-20 09:57:13

byte
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From: Düsseldorf (DE)
Registered: 2006-05-01
Posts: 2,046

Re: hal

schaaaf wrote:

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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#13 2009-03-20 13:17:42

Misfit138
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