hald problem FC4

[Alastair McKinley]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 00:33 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: 
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:53:49PM +0000, Alastair McKinley wrote:
> > I have just noticed that during bootup of my machine, the haldaemon
> > fails to start.
> > 
> > The only message I can find related to this is the following:
> > 
> > Dec 14 11:49:01 d6173 hal.hotplug[4080]: DEVPATH is not set (subsystem
> > input)
> 
> This is harmless, just ignore it. The "input" subsytem is properly
> integrated in the driver core in recent kernels.
> 
> > This has been happening for at least a few days without me noticing.  I
> > had a quick google and found some questions but not answers.
> 
> Try to trace hald like it is described here:
>   http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fHalTraces
> 
> Kay


John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com> wrote:
> You don't have dbus running.
> 
> as root:
> 
> /sbin/service start dbus
> 
> and then start HAL.  (did you compile D-Bus yourself?)
> 
> 
> 


Simple and stupid problem.  When using system-config-services I had
accidently unchecked messagebus in runlevel 5.

Thanks John for your help.

Best regards,

Alastair