haldaemon problem

[david walcroft]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 09:25 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>   
>> Todd Zullinger wrote:
>>     
>>> david walcroft wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I'm trying to restart the daemon and get this
>>>>
>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo /sbin/service haldaemon restart
>>>> Stopping HAL daemon:                                       [FAILED]
>>>> Starting HAL daemon:                                       [FAILED]
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Look in /var/log/messages for some some clues.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Is it because I might not have haldaemon in my system.
>>>>
>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo rpm -qa | grep haldaemon
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> No.  The package name isn't haldaemon, it's just hal.  If you didn't
>>> have it installed, you wouldn't have the init script that the service
>>> command runs. :)
>>>
>>> You could check with rpm -V that the hal packages aren't messed up (if
>>> there's nothing obvious in the logs):
>>>
>>> rpm -V hal hal-libs
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> No I do not have rpm -V hal hal-libs and no messages in the in the log.
>>     
>
> Can you "rpm -qa | grep hal" and see if you have any HAL stuff at all?
> You should have at least hal and hal-libs.  If not, then "yum install
> hal hal-libs"
>
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Yes I have hal as shown

[david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo rpm -qa | grep hal
hal-libs-0.5.10-1.fc8.i386
hal-0.5.10-1.fc8.i386
hal-devel-0.5.10-1.fc8.i386
hal-info-20071030-1.fc8.noarch
[david at reddwarf ~]$          

Does hald reside in one of these packages.

  david