Problem launching hald

[Kevin Williams]

I haven't explicitly specified any options as gentoo uses this ebuild system. 
But, I'm sure that, the options with dbus match with that of HAL. Both store 
their config file in /etc/dbus-1. HAL stores hal.conf in /etc/dbus-1/system.d 
directory and everything seems to be fine configuration wise unless I missed 
something. 

ebuild system in gentoo automatically creates the "haldaemon" user and group 
which, I have confirmed by looking into /etc/passwd and /etc/group.

What else am I missing ? I haven't got a clue !! I have been trying to make 
this work since yesterday. I even tried downgrading HAL and DBUS and that 
didn't help either.

I've run out of ideas for now. Any ideas ?

Thanks for any help that'd come along.

Kevin


On Thursday 11 January 2007 02:13, you wrote:
> Well the dbus_bus_get() failure is something you should focus on. HAL
> initializes okay, but fails to register with D-Bus. What options have
> you used to configure HAL and are they aligned with the options D-Bus
> was configured? E.g. HAL installs hal.conf in ${prefix}/etc/dbus-1,
> which might not be where D-Bus is looking. Also ensure that you create
> user ${HAL_USER} and group ${HAL_GROUP} as per the configure.
>
> -Artem.