Gnome causes kernel panics (probably hald)
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at freebsd.org
Fri Jun 6 18:41:51 UTC 2008
Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sometimes FreeBSD has a kernel panic, even at night when the computer
> is doing nothing. I suspect it's hald that is causing it. Sometimes
> FreeBSD panics when booting and starting gdm. And only then I get
> information that hald is causing a page fault.
>
> When booting I get:
>
> ...
> /etc/rc: WARNING: run_rc_command: cannot run /usr/local/sbin/polkitd
> /etc/rc: WARNING: $dbus_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
> ...
>
> And after that tons of messages every 30 seconds like:
>
> ...
> gnome-keyring-daemon[1371]: Scheduling hal init retry
> gnome-keyring-daemon[1371]: failed to initialize a HAL context: (null)
> ...
>
> I start gnome with gnome_enable="YES" in my rc.conf. Problem about hald
> is that it just won't start. When I try to start it manually, it just
> exits with a "signal 11".
>
> Anyone an idea how to run hald and make FreeBSD stable again?
> I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-stable, Gnome-2.22 and hal-0.5.11.
You'll need to provide a lot more detail here. See
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html and
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html for details.
Joe
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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome at FreeBSD.org
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