haldaemon problem

[david walcroft]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> david walcroft wrote:
>   
>> Rpm -V hal shows nothing
>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo rpm -V hal hal-libs
>> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>>     
>
> That's good.  It means you have both packages installed and that
> the contents of those packages match what was installed by rpm/yum.
>
> Next thing I would try is to find out what, if any, error haldaemon
> gives when you try to start it up.
>
> I think tailing the /var/log/messages file is very handy for this.
>
> Run tailf /var/log/messages in one terminal.
>
> Run service haldaemon restart in another.  See if there are any log
> messages in the first terminal.  If not, you can try to run hald
> directly to get some output.
>
> Run hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes (as root, like with the previous
> commands).  Hopefully you will get some output that will help us
> determine where the problem is.
>
>   
[david at reddwarf ~]$ hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
11:41:24.630 [I] hald.c:634: hal 0.5.10
11:41:24.630 [I] hald.c:699: Will not daemonize
11:41:24.648 [I] hald_dbus.c:5284: local server is listening at 
unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-Wk4MmSHj5z,guid=54550280ec271fa7b0e54100475deac4
11:41:24.676 [I] ck-tracker.c:387: got seat 
'/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1'
11:41:24.677 [I] ck-tracker.c:338: Got all sessions on seat 
'/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1'
11:41:24.677 [I] ck-tracker.c:414: Got seats
11:41:24.677 [I] ck-tracker.c:796: Got seats and sessions
11:41:24.689 [I] hald_runner.c:301: Runner has pid 16842
11:41:24.690 [W] ci-tracker.c:299: Could not get uid for connection: 
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner Could not get UID of name 
'org.freedesktop.DBus': no such name
11:41:24.690 [E] hald_dbus.c:4944: Cannot get caller info for 
org.freedesktop.DBus
Runner started - allowed paths are 
'/usr/libexec:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin'
11:41:24.693 [I] hald_runner.c:182: runner connection is 0x8902cc8
11:41:24.744 [D] util_helper.c:124: drop_privileges: could not set group id
[david at reddwarf ~]$

Hope this helps              david