New dbus port breaks hald
Kevin Oberman
oberman at es.net
Tue Oct 26 23:26:09 UTC 2010
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:07:24 -0700
> From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
>
> > Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:38:24 -0400
> > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>
> >
> > On 10/25/10 4:04 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > This weekend I upgraded dbus from 1.2.24_2 to 1.4.0. The upgrade
> > > reported no problems and dbus appears to start up just fine, but hald
> > > does not. It exits during initialization with:
> > > 11:52:44.493 [I] hald_runner.c:110: runner_server_message_handler: destination=(null) obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus/Local interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Local method=Disconnected
> > > 11:52:44.493 [I] hald_runner.c:151: runner process disconnected
> > > *** [DIE] hald_runner.c:runner_died():204 : Runner died
> > >
> > > I have had this happen on at least 10 attempts to start hald, but on ONE
> > > occasion, hald started normally, so I suspect a race.
> > >
> > > I have submitted a PR, ports/151725, which has more detail and I have
> > > rolled back to 1.2.24_2.
> > >
> > > Any other information I can supply to help track this down?
> >
> > Works for me. It looks like hal may be crashing. Are you seeing
> > anything in dmesg? Are you seeing any core dumps? What happens if you
> > run hald from gdb with --daemon=no?
>
> I included the tail of the output of 'hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes'.
> Looks like it is simply exiting with an error (exit 1) after reporting
> that hal-runner had died. I get:
>
> Run started hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse (0) (0)
> ! full path is '/usr/local/libexec/hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse', program_dir is '/usr/local/libexec'
> 15:29:04.198 [I] hald_runner.c:663: running_processes 0x34283dc0, num = 1
> 15:29:04.198 [I] hald.c:120: Started addon hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse for udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/psm_0
> dumpcis: CIS code read: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
> [various device additions elided]
>
> Run started hald-addon-input (0) (0)
> ! full path is 'hald-addon-input', program_dir is '(null)'
> 15:29:04.231 [E] hald_runner.c:676: Error running 'hald-addon-input': org.freedesktop.HalRunner.Failed: Start request failed
> 15:29:04.231 [E] hald_dbus.c:3579: Cannot start singleton addon hald-addon-input for udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbd_0
>
> [Lots of probe results that look "normal" elided]
>
> 15:29:04.274 [I] hald_runner.c:110: runner_server_message_handler: destination=(null) obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus/Local interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Local method=Disconnected
> 15:29:04.274 [I] hald_runner.c:151: runner process disconnected
> *** [DIE] hald_runner.c:runner_died():204 : Runner died
>
> While I don't see anything else that looks even slightly odd, I can
> provide the full output.
To follow up my own message, the dumpcis error is occurring on both the
old (1.2.24) and new (1.4.0) dbus systems. I will try to get a little
time tonight to compare the outputs for REAL diffs, but it is clearly
the failure of hal-runner that is causing hald to exit.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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