Possible missing file in hal installation

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 02:12 +0800, manphiz at gmail.com wrote:
> I've been frustrating by the hal problem which is probably due to lack 
> of hald-addon-acpi or similar stuff. here's the output from the commands:
> 
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> 
> # hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
> 00:36:17.136 [I] hald.c:469: hal 0.5.8
> 00:36:17.136 [I] hald.c:534: Will not daemonize
> 00:36:17.136 [I] hald_dbus.c:3238: local server is listening at 
> unix:path=/var/run/hald/dbus-tc8Wy2La5k,guid=ad4c24e578b961e09af77c004597e701
> 00:36:17.146 [I] hald_runner.c:116: Runner has pid 64356
> Runner started - allowed paths are 
> '/usr/local/libexec:/usr/local/libexec/hal/scripts:/usr/local/bin'
> 00:36:17.167 [I] hf-usb.c:575: unable to open /dev/usb: Device busy
> Run started hald-probe-smbios (10000) (0)
> !  full path is '/usr/local/libexec/hald-probe-smbios', program_dir is 
> '/usr/local/libexec'
> 00:36:17.248 [I] hald_dbus.c:3197: 64355: Got a connection
> 00:36:17.248 [I] hald_dbus.c:3198: dbus_connection_get_is_connected = 1
> 00:36:17.252 [D] hald_dbus.c:1194: 
> udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, key=smbios.bios.vendor
> hald-probe-smbios info: Setting smbios.bios.vendor='Phoenix'
> 00:36:17.252 [D] hald_dbus.c:1194: 
> udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, key=smbios.bios.version
> hald-probe-smbios info: Setting smbios.bios.version='G.W-0F05'
> 00:36:17.253 [D] hald_dbus.c:1194: 
> udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, key=smbios.bios.release_date
> hald-probe-smbios info: Setting smbios.bios.release_date='03/08/2004'
> 00:36:17.253 [D] hald_dbus.c:1194: 
> udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, key=smbios.system.manufacturer
> hald-probe-smbios info: Setting smbios.system.manufacturer='GREATWALL'
> 00:36:17.254 [D] hald_dbus.c:1194: 
> udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, key=smbios.system.product
> hald-probe-smbios info: Setting smbios.system.product='M620DC'
> 00:36:17.254 [D] hald_dbus.c:1194: 
> udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, key=smbios.system.version
> hald-probe-smbios info: Setting smbios.system.version='G.W-0F05'
> 00:36:17.254 [D] hald_dbus.c:1194: 
> udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, key=smbios.system.serial
> hald-probe-smbios info: Setting smbios.system.serial='20011221'
> 00:36:17.255 [D] hald_dbus.c:1194: 
> udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, key=smbios.system.uuid
> hald-probe-smbios info: Setting 
> smbios.system.uuid='436F6F70-6572-5370-7572-5F424F415244'
> 00:36:17.255 [D] hald_dbus.c:1194: 
> udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, key=smbios.chassis.manufacturer
> hald-probe-smbios info: Setting smbios.chassis.manufacturer='GREATWALL'
> 00:36:17.256 [D] hald_dbus.c:1194: 
> udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer, key=smbios.chassis.type
> hald-probe-smbios info: Setting smbios.chassis.type='Other'
> /usr/local/libexec/hald-probe-smbios exited
> 00:36:17.257 [I] hald_dbus.c:3175: Client to local_server was disconnected
> 00:36:17.257 [I] hald_dbus.c:3185: unregistered
> 00:36:17.271 [I] device_info.c:1427: *** Matched file 
> /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-power-mgmt-policy.fdi
> 00:36:17.272 [I] device_info.c:1427: *** Matched file 
> /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi
> 00:36:17.272 [I] util.c:972: Add callouts for 
> udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer
> Run started hal-system-storage-cleanup-mountpoints (10000) (0)
> !  full path is 
> '/usr/local/libexec/hal/scripts/hal-system-storage-cleanup-mountpoints', 
> program_dir is '/usr/local/libexec/hal/scripts'
> /usr/local/libexec/hal/scripts/hal-system-storage-cleanup-mountpoints exited
> 00:36:17.301 [I] hald.c:82: Added device to GDL; 
> udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer
> Run started hald-addon-acpi (0) (0)
> !  full path is 'hald-addon-acpi', program_dir is '(null)'
> 00:36:17.323 [I] hald.c:95: Started addon hald-addon-acpi for udi 
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer
> 
> -----END PASTE-----
> 
> then it got stuck and CPU ran up to 100%. Evidence shows it is very 
> likely related to the missing of hald-addon-acpi.
> 
> Here's some system information maybe helpful:
> 
> -----BEGIN PASTE-----
> 
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD localhost. 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #2: Sun Dec 31 
> 19:42:43 CST 2006     root at localhost.:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> $ pkg_info | grep hal-0.5.8
> hal-0.5.8.20061224  Hardware Abstraction Layer for simplifying device access
> 
> $ /usr/bin/env
> DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID=
> SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
> TERM=xterm
> CLICOLOR=YES
> GTK_RC_FILES=/usr/local/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/manphiz/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
> WINDOWID=18888129
> USER=manphiz
> GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/var/tmp/keyring-BXcAW6/socket
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/localhost.:/tmp/.ICE-unix/52216
> FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/manphiz/bin
> MAIL=/var/mail/manphiz
> BLOCKSIZE=K
> PWD=/home/manphiz
> XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> HOME=/home/manphiz
> SHLVL=2
> GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default
> LOGNAME=manphiz
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/var/tmp/dbus-RoAXiZNHSv,guid=fb2bbd6083c53125a2981d004597f8a1
> LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8
> DISPLAY=:0.0
> COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
> XAUTHORITY=/home/manphiz/.Xauthority
> _=/usr/bin/env
> 
> -----END PASTE-----
> 
> Also, from discussion on ##freebsd at freenode, hald-addon-acpi is 
> considered to be linux-stuff, so maybe stale configuration is 
> responsible too. It is also interesting that there are other people who 
> also got hald-addon-acpi missing but hald still functions correctly, so 
> maybe something else is indeed the problem.

You should try ktracing hald to see what it's doing.  Or recompile it
with debugging symbols, then use gdb to break into it and find out where
in the code it's looping.  The latter would be the most helpful.

Joe

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