"hald" just won't die

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/31/2011 08:05 AM, john wendel wrote:
> I just did an F15 LXDE install on an old laptop (incidently, best
> install I've ever done, bravo LXDE quys).
>
> Now I see 9 processes with "hald" in their name, and 3 processes named
> "udevd" running. I thought hal was supposed to be gone. I also see
> udisk-daemon and hald-addon-storage both polling /dev/sr0.
>
> This is a really low-end laptop, can I get rid of any of the hal stuff?
>

I have 3 systems running F15, none of them with LXDE, and none of them 
have the "hal" package installed.  If I were in your shoes I would first 
do "yum erase hal" and see what/if it offers to remove other packages as 
depending on hal.