hal does not start anymore

[Johanna Bilder]

Hi Martin,
thank you for your mail.

Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 09:01:08 schrieb Martin Pitt:


> Hi Johanna,
>
> Johanna Bilder [2008-11-11 22:17 +0100]:
> > I work on an eeepc 900 with hardy and adams kernel, all worked fine.
>
> You should probably file this as a bug in Launchpad instead of going
> directly upstream, but let's have a look here.
>
> > root at eee-kubu:/# /etc/init.d/hal start
> >  * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald
> > root at eee-kubu:/# ps aux | grep hal
> > root      6643  0.0  0.0   3012   772 pts/2    S+   21:53   0:00 grep hal
>
> Can you please do this:
>
> # hald --verbose=yes --daemon=no 2>&1 | tee /tmp/hal.log
>
> This will startup hal in the foreground in debugging mode. It should
> die and return to the prompt after a few seconds. Please send
> /tmp/hal.log, it should have some hints.
>
11:33:34.605 [I] hald.c:669: hal 0.5.11rc2
11:33:34.606 [I] hald.c:734: Will not daemonize
11:33:34.608 [I] hald_dbus.c:5381: local server is listening at 
unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-AebmXTtAgT,guid=dd349466931730fdc0d2d89f491ab0fe
11:33:34.664 [I] ck-tracker.c:387: got 
seat '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1'
11:33:34.669 [I] ck-tracker.c:317: got 
session '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1' for 
seat '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1'
11:33:34.690 [I] ck-tracker.c:270: Got active state (ACTIVE) and uid 1000 on 
session '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1'
11:33:34.690 [I] ck-tracker.c:338: Got all sessions on 
seat '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1'
11:33:34.690 [I] ck-tracker.c:414: Got seats
11:33:34.690 [I] ck-tracker.c:796: Got seats and sessions
Runner started - allowed paths 
are '/usr/lib/hal:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin'
11:33:34.747 [I] hald_runner.c:301: Runner has pid 6420
11:33:34.752 [I] hald_runner.c:182: runner connection is 0x80a3f20
11:33:34.756 [W] osspec.c:373: Unable to open /proc/mdstat: No such file or 
directory
[WARN  6418] polkit-error.c:143:polkit_error_get_error_message(): error != 
NULL
 Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
*** [DIE] hald.c:main():785 : Could not init PolicyKit context: (null)
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I see a lot of letters and figures.
But the sense behind .........

Best regards an thanks for your help
Johanna