On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 08:14 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > Todd Zullinger wrote: > > david walcroft wrote: > > > >> [david@reddwarf ~]$ hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes > >> 11:41:24.630 [I] hald.c:634: hal 0.5.10 > >> 11:41:24.630 [I] hald.c:699: Will not daemonize > >> 11:41:24.648 [I] hald_dbus.c:5284: local server is listening at > >> unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-Wk4MmSHj5z,guid=54550280ec271fa7b0e54100475deac4 > >> 11:41:24.676 [I] ck-tracker.c:387: got seat > >> '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1' > >> 11:41:24.677 [I] ck-tracker.c:338: Got all sessions on seat > >> '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1' > >> 11:41:24.677 [I] ck-tracker.c:414: Got seats > >> 11:41:24.677 [I] ck-tracker.c:796: Got seats and sessions > >> 11:41:24.689 [I] hald_runner.c:301: Runner has pid 16842 > >> 11:41:24.690 [W] ci-tracker.c:299: Could not get uid for connection: > >> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner Could not get UID of name > >> 'org.freedesktop.DBus': no such name > >> 11:41:24.690 [E] hald_dbus.c:4944: Cannot get caller info for > >> org.freedesktop.DBus > >> Runner started - allowed paths are > >> '/usr/libexec:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin' > >> 11:41:24.693 [I] hald_runner.c:182: runner connection is 0x8902cc8 > >> 11:41:24.744 [D] util_helper.c:124: drop_privileges: could not set group id > >> [david@reddwarf ~]$ > >> > >> Hope this helps > >> > > > > It definitely gives up something to work with. Is the ConsoleKit > > service running (service ConsoleKit status)? Is DBus running (service > > messagebus status)? > > > > Perhaps someone else will recognize this and chime in. A quick google > > doesn't turn up anything I'd consider definitive as the cause. > > > > > service ConsoleKit status = (pid 2020) is running > service message status = (pid 2312 1869 is running > > Hope this can help david > Another thing to check is the ownership of /var/cache/hald. I had a laptop on which hald would not start and that was fixed by setting the ownership to haldaemon. hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes will go a long way to help debug.
