hald doesn't start on boot...

[Chris Brennan]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Peter Harrison <peter.piggybox at virgin.net>wrote:

> Thursday,  4 November 2010 at 17:56:56 -0400, Chris Brennan said:
> > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Peter Harrison <
> peter.piggybox at virgin.net>wrote:
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I'm having a problem with hald.
> > >
> > > I have the following in my rc.conf:
> > >
> > > hald_enable="YES"
> > > dbus_enable="YES"
> > >
> > > and I see a "starting hald" message on boot, with seemingly no errors.
> Yet
> > > afterwards hald is not running - but if I then run
> > >
> > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start
> > >
> > > hald starts without complaint, no messages, no problems. So why won't
> it
> > > start at boot?
> > >
> > > This is on 8.1-RELEASE.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any ideas on how to track down what the problem is,
> and
> > > fix it?
> > >
> > > TIA.
> > >
> > >
> > I just looked at my FBSD64-8.1 install and hald did successfully start on
> > reboot. I'm not sure why it's failing to start for you. Have you tried
> > modify the init script to include  '--use-syslog' and check
> > /var/log/messages for any messages?
>
> Thanks for coming back to me Chris. I added this to rc.conf:
>
> hald_flags="--use-syslog"
>
> but I get nothing logged when starting hald. The strange thing is that this
> was working fine until after I ran my last portupgrade - but this didn't
> touch hal. These are the ports that got updated (based on the packages from
> my package building machine):
>
> ImageMagick-6.6.4.10.tbz
> autoconf-2.68.tbz
> automake-1.11.1.tbz
> bash-4.1.9.tbz
> cdrtools-3.00_1.tbz
> cmake-2.8.2_1.tbz
> conky-1.8.1.tbz
> dbus-1.4.0.tbz
> fetchmail-6.3.18.tbz
> ffmpeg-0.6.1,1.tbz
> firefox-3.6.12,1.tbz
> fusefs-kmod-0.3.9.p1.20080208_7.tbz
> iso-codes-3.21.tbz
> libSM-1.1.1_3,1.tbz
> libpciaccess-0.12.0.tbz
> libtasn1-2.8.tbz
> libxul-1.9.2.9_1.tbz
> mencoder-1.0.r20100717_2.tbz
> mplayer-1.0.r20100717_2.tbz
> nss-3.12.8.tbz
> orc-0.4.11.tbz
> p5-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.031.tbz
> p5-Digest-MD5-2.51.tbz
> p5-IO-Compress-2.030.tbz
> p5-URI-1.56.tbz
> p5-WWW-Mechanize-1.66.tbz
> p5-XML-Parser-2.40.tbz
> p5-YAML-Tiny-1.44.tbz
> p5-libwww-5.837.tbz
> pciids-20101005.tbz
> ruby+nopthreads-1.8.7.248_5,1.tbz
> samba34-libsmbclient-3.4.9.tbz
> sane-backends-1.0.21_2.tbz
> schroedinger-1.0.10.tbz
> sqlite3-3.7.3.tbz
> vim-7.3.32.tbz
> xpaint-2.9.6.3.tbz
> youtube_dl-2010.10.03.tbz
>
>
For shiggles, try reinstalling hald w/ 'portmaster -dRrt sysutils/hal'

>From the portmaster manpage
-t recurse dependencies thoroughly, using all-depends-list
-d always clean distfiles
[-R] -r rebuild port, and all ports that depend on it





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