hal-set-property from a callout broken

[Phillip Susi]

Darn, I thought that might have been the answer, but alas, $UDI contains 
the exact same string and I get the exact same error calling 
hal-set-property:

error: libhal_ctx_init: (null): (null)


David Zeuthen wrote:

>On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 12:40 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
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>>echo hal-set-property --udi $HAL_PROP_INFO_UDI --key block.device.pktcdvdnum --int $DEVNUM 
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>You want to use $UDI instead of $HAL_PROP_INFO_UDI because of the fact
>that the device is not yet in the store even though we already named it.
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>So $UDI should be of the form /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/blah or
>something. Btw, this is very deliberate as we want callouts to be able
>to modify the device object before we announce it on the bus.
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>HTH,
>David
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