hald does not start

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Coni,

ConiKost at gmx.de [2009-07-19 18:32 +0200]:
> Hi!
> I've installed von my gentoo system hal (version 0.5.11-r9).
> My problem is, that i am unable to start hald :( hald runner just dies.
> 
> My logs of command "hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes"
> -> http://pastebin.com/f19e6afa
> 
> My logs with command "strace hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes"
> -> http://pastebin.com/f4cb2cec4 (last 1000 lines, original ist 20k lines)

Wild speculation: looks like a read() call timed out and caused a NULL
pointer deref. Can you try with 0.5.13?

Also, please run hal under a debugger and send a stack trace.

Thanks!

Martin

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