ports/155946: sysutils/hal: Does not restart properly after xdm/X11 reset in conjunction with xf86-video-ati

Sat Mar 26 10:40:11 UTC 2011

>Number:         155946
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       sysutils/hal: Does not restart properly after xdm/X11 reset in conjunction with xf86-video-ati
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 26 10:40:10 UTC 2011
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Hartmann, O.
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64 and FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE
>Organization:
FU Berlin
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>Description:
Login into a box unsuccessfully via xdm often results in a stuck xdm requester with no mouse and keyboard. Investigating this behaviour from a remote terminal shows that "hald" is dead and needs to be restartet. Some one can trigger this behaviour in doing some mistakes in the startup scripts .xsession/.xinitrc to fall back to the xdm login requester and try again login until the box is stuck due to no mouse and keyboard.

I realize this problem on all(!) AMD/ATi driven boxes using xf86-video-ati as the video card driver. Several notebooks equipted with nVidia graphics chipsets using nVidias propriate driver do no show this behaviour, at least I can not trigger the HAL daemon to die by the mentioned method. 
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