david walcroft wrote: > I'm trying to restart the daemon and get this > > [david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo /sbin/service haldaemon restart > Stopping HAL daemon: [FAILED] > Starting HAL daemon: [FAILED] Look in /var/log/messages for some some clues. > Is it because I might not have haldaemon in my system. > > [david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo rpm -qa | grep haldaemon No. The package name isn't haldaemon, it's just hal. If you didn't have it installed, you wouldn't have the init script that the service command runs. :) You could check with rpm -V that the hal packages aren't messed up (if there's nothing obvious in the logs): rpm -V hal hal-libs -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. -- Abba Eban
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