It had something to do with being an upgrade.
I did a fresh install and all is well.
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 20:30 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> I updated an FC3 computer to FC4. Printing didn't work on it when it
> was FC3.
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> The printer won't appear in system-config-printers after the update. It
> didn't before the update either. I did a bunch of tracing and figured
> out that something was wrong with dbus and haldaemon. I went to
> system-config-services and stopped hald. When I restart it, it gives an
> error:
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> haldaemon failed. The error was: Starting HAL daemon:
> [60G[[0;31mFAILED[0;39m]
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> OK...
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> I go to /etc/init.d and find haldaeon.
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> Starting and stopping it gives:
> #./haldaemon start
> Starting HAL daemon: [FAILED]
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> OK.
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> I go into haldaemon and find:
> ================================================================
> processname=hald
> servicename=haldaemon
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> RETVAL=0
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> start() {
> echo -n $"Starting HAL daemon: "
> daemon --check $servicename $processname --retain-privileges
> ...
> =================================================================
>
> So... I try it manually:
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> hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes --retain-privileges
> 20:24:16.452 [I] hald.c:495: hal 0.5.2
> 20:24:16.452 [I] hald.c:497: Will daemonize
> 20:24:16.452 [I] hald.c:507: Becoming a daemon
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> No errors !
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> I can't find the path to daemon to see if I can call hald like it does in haldaemon.
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> Any ideas ?
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> Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
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Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
