On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 09:25 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > Todd Zullinger wrote: > > 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 > > > > > No I do not have rpm -V hal hal-libs and no messages in the in the log. Can you "rpm -qa | grep hal" and see if you have any HAL stuff at all? You should have at least hal and hal-libs. If not, then "yum install hal hal-libs" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - Errors have occurred. We won't tell you where or why. We have - - lazy programmers. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
