Running hal on arm architecture

shankar grep shankar.grep at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 20:41:44 PST 2007


Hi,

I am trying to run hal on arm architecture with kernel 2.6.20.
I cross compiled hal-0.5.10 for arm. I have also cross compiled dbus, udev,
hal-info and policy kit.
When i run  "hald  --daemon=no --verbose=yes"  it succesfully discovers all
the devices and quits....

Here is the last few lines printed by hald....


00:04:43.990 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:944: Done looking in
/sys/block/ram6/slaves
00:04:43.990 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:950: Ignoring hotplug event
- no parent
00:04:43.990 [W] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:1434: Not adding device
object
00:04:43.990 [I] ../../../hald/linux/coldplug.c:214: pool_num_freed = 166
(of 170)
00:04:44.000 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:856: block_add:
sysfs_path=/sys/block/ram7 dev=/dev/ram7 is_part=0, parent=0x00000000
00:04:44.000 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:897: Looking in
/sys/block/ram7/slaves for Device Mapper
00:04:44.000 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:908:
/sys/block/ram7/slaves/. -> /sys/block/ram7/slaves
00:04:44.000 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:908:
/sys/block/ram7/slaves/.. -> /sys/block/ram7
00:04:44.000 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:944: Done looking in
/sys/block/ram7/slaves
00:04:44.000 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:950: Ignoring hotplug event
- no parent
00:04:44.000 [W] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:1434: Not adding device
object
00:04:44.000 [I] ../../../hald/linux/coldplug.c:214: pool_num_freed = 167
(of 170)
00:04:44.330 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:856: block_add:
sysfs_path=/sys/block/ram8 dev=/dev/ram8 is_part=0, parent=0x00000000
00:04:44.330 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:897: Looking in
/sys/block/ram8/slaves for Device Mapper
00:04:44.340 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:908:
/sys/block/ram8/slaves/. -> /sys/block/ram8/slaves
00:04:44.340 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:908:
/sys/block/ram8/slaves/.. -> /sys/block/ram8
00:04:44.340 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:944: Done looking in
/sys/block/ram8/slaves
00:04:44.340 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:950: Ignoring hotplug event
- no parent
00:04:44.340 [W] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:1434: Not adding device
object
00:04:44.340 [I] ../../../hald/linux/coldplug.c:214: pool_num_freed = 168
(of 170)
00:04:44.340 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:856: block_add:
sysfs_path=/sys/block/ram9 dev=/dev/ram9 is_part=0, parent=0x00000000
00:04:44.340 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:897: Looking in
/sys/block/ram9/slaves for Device Mapper
00:04:44.350 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:908:
/sys/block/ram9/slaves/. -> /sys/block/ram9/slaves
00:04:44.350 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:908:
/sys/block/ram9/slaves/.. -> /sys/block/ram9
00:04:44.350 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:944: Done looking in
/sys/block/ram9/slaves
00:04:44.350 [I] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:950: Ignoring hotplug event
- no parent
00:04:44.350 [W] ../../../hald/linux/blockdev.c:1434: Not adding device
object
00:04:44.350 [I] ../../../hald/linux/coldplug.c:214: pool_num_freed = 169
(of 170)
00:04:44.350 [I] ../../../hald/linux/coldplug.c:217: Freeing whole pool
00:04:44.350 [I] ../../../hald/linux/apm.c:398: apm_add: apm_path=/proc/apm
apm_type=0, parent=0x00000000
00:04:44.370 [I] ../../hald/hald.c:108: Added device to GDL;
udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/apm_battery
00:04:44.370 [I] ../../../hald/linux/apm.c:398: apm_add: apm_path=/proc/apm
apm_type=1, parent=0x00000000
00:04:44.380 [I] ../../hald/hald.c:108: Added device to GDL;
udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/apm_ac_adapter
00:04:44.380 [I] ../../hald/hald.c:829: Device probing completed
00:04:44.380 [I] ../../hald/hald_dbus.c:5665: entering
00:04:44.390 [E] ../../hald/hald_dbus.c:5676: dbus_bus_request_name():
Connection ":1.0" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.Hal"
due to security policies in the configuration file



I am suspecting i have wrong entries in my policy file. Any help or
pointers  as how to change the policy file so as to get the hald running
will be very helpful.

Thanks in advance for replying..

Shankar
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