hal 0.5.0 "The family had a lot of buffers." release

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 20:22 +0000, Matthew Burgess wrote:
> David Zeuthen wrote:
>  > I've just released hal 0.5.0 - it's may be a bit rough around the
>  > edges and there are some things like .fdi files for cameras that I
>  > need to put in (the patch is *still* on this mailing list, sorry).
> 
> Apologies for a potentially newbie question, but I get the following 
> when trying to startup 'hald':
> 
> *** [DIE] osspec.c:osspec_init():328 : Unable to bind to netlink socket
> 
> Running 'hald' through 'strace' I see the following:
> 
> socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_DGRAM, 15)      = 7
> getpid()                                = 6485
> bind(7, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=6485, groups=ffffffff}, 12) = -1 
> EPERM (Operation not permitted)
> 
> Any ideas what's going on here?  My initial guess is that the netlink 
> socket is already in use by some other process,

No, it's a broadcast socket. It can have multiple listeners.

>  though I can't think 
> what that might be, or how I could find out.

What kernel version is it? Do you have CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT=y in the
kernel config?

Kay

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