user haldaemon does not exist

[philip brown]

--- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 21:48 +0000, philip brown
> wrote:
> > --- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
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> > > philip brown wrote:
> > > > I'm running 6.2 RC1 and I get the following
> error 
> > > > message (follows) when hald tries to start up.
> > > > 
> > > > I added a regular user named "haldaemon" with
> > > adduser
> > > > and hald all worked fine. 
> > > > 
> > > > I also 
> > > > 1.) commented out cdrom device in /etc/fstab 
> > > > 2.) made sure /media folder existed
> > > > 3.) pw group mod operator -m philip as in q.19
> g2
> > > faq
> > > > 
> > > > so I do have a working hald installation,
> however
> > > I
> > > > would like "haldaemon" as a system account
> (ie.
> > > like
> > > > www or uucp or pop). not like a regular end
> user
> > > (ie.
> > > > philip david dweezil moon_unit).
> > > > 
> > > > I am relatively new to freebsd administration,
> can
> > > > somebody please advise how I would achieve
> this.
> > > > 
> > > > I would imagine on installation "haldaemon"
> should
> > > > have been installed?
> > > 
> > > How did you install hal?  This user should be
> > > created automatically by
> > > the port and/or package.
> > > 
> > > Joe
> > > 
> > > - --
> > > Joe Marcus Clarke
> > > FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
> > > FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
> > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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> > Just off the 6.2 RC1 cd packages... 
> > 
> > installed Freebsd with x and the after logging
> into x
> > I ran sysinstall - configure packages - gnome
> 
> The user will be added provided PACKAGE_BUILDING is
> not defined in your
> environment.  I don't see any reason why this would
> fail otherwise.
> 
> Joe
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a follow up to "user haldaemon does not exist" now
that I have RC2 installed. I have the same problem as
before.

I installed from 6.2-RC2-i386-disc1.iso the x-user
distribution... once this was complete I logged in as
non-root user, fired up x, su'd in terminal and
installed from /usr/sbin/sysinstall -
"6.2-RC2-i386-disc2.iso" the gnome2-2.16.1_2 pkg which
in turm automatically checked dependencies. I did not
check any other pkg's.


installation of gnome completed without any errors. 

so same "user haldaemon does not exist" after
ammending /etc/rc.conf and rebooting. 

to fix I:
cd /usr/ports/sys/hal
make deinstall
make install


and I was greeted with :
Added group "haldaemon".
Added user "haldaemon".

so hal is working fine, for me this seems to be a
problem with not creating haldaemon group/user when
gnome is installed from /usr/sbin/sysinstall



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