On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 01:57 -0800, Tod Merley wrote: > On Dec 6, 2007 3:47 PM, david walcroft <d_j_w46@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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] > > > > Is it because I might not have haldaemon in my system. > > > > [david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo rpm -qa | grep haldaemon > > > > This brings up nothing. > > > > > > Thanks david > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > Hi david walcroft! > > To administrate, be root - become so "su". su - would be better. > > >From "man hald": > > ------------------------------------------------ > > BUGS AND DEBUGGING > Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the HAL mailing > list, see http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal on how to > subscribe. > > First, to obtain useful debug traces you will need to have debuginfo > packages installed. On a Fedora system this is in the hal-debuginfo > package and can be installed via the yum update program. > > Second, shut down the existing hald daemon instance; on a Fedora system > this is achieved by > > /etc/init.d/haldaemon stop > > After having shut down the daemon, you might want to run > > pkill hald > > to ensure that all the helper processe of hald are killed too. To start > the HAL daemon, use > > /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes > > gdb /usr/sbin/hald > > and then typing > > run --daemon=no --verbose=yes > > at the (gdb) prompt. To capture a back trace, use the bt command and > attach this to the bug report. > > Please also attach the output of lshal(1) in the bug report if possible > (it's not possible if the hald daemon crashed). If the nature of the > bug has to do with hotplugging, attach two outputs of lshal(1) - one > before the device hotplug event and one after. > > SEE ALSO > udev(7), dbus-daemon(1), lshal(1), hal-set-property(1), hal-get-prop- > erty(1), hal-find-by-property(1), hal-find-by-capability(1), hal-is- > caller-locked-out(1) > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Have fun! > > Tod > -- ======================================================================= The descent to Hades is the same from every place. -- Anaxagoras ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
