haldaemon just dies, how to analyse ?

[Soren Hansen]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:28:55AM +0100, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> => /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes 23:01:04.928 [I]
> hald.c:495: hal 0.5.2 23:01:04.928 [I] hald.c:497: Will daemonize
> 23:01:04.928 [I] hald.c:507: Becoming a daemon
> 
> After 25 seconds the process dies.
> I can't find any messages in the logs that lead me to root cause.

A good starting point is strace:
strace /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes

strace shows all the system calls performed by the process.

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