On Saturday 04 March 2006 20:56, Marcel Janssen wrote: > On Saturday 04 March 2006 20:50, Marcel Janssen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Since a few weeks haldaemon fails on one of my machines. > > Starting the service just shows : > > /sbin/service haldaemon restart > > Stopping HAL daemon: [FAILED] > > Starting HAL daemon: [FAILED] > > > > Starting hald manually : > > /usr/sbin/hald --verbose=yes > > 20:47:10.722 [I] hald.c:495: hal 0.5.2 > > 20:47:10.722 [I] hald.c:497: Will daemonize > > 20:47:10.722 [I] hald.c:507: Becoming a daemon > > > > After this it just dies. > > > > Does anyone have an idea how to get it working again ? > > BTW, I'm on X86-64 FC4. > > Do other users have the same issue ? > > Regards, > Marcel Check for an orphaned lock file. -- Tony