Does FreeBSD have HAL?

[David Faure]

Hi Dwayne,

I think I confused service name and interface name.
Does  `qdbus --system org.freedesktop.Hal` work?

Thanks,
David.

On dimanche 5 janvier 2020 01:34:49 CET Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So, when I run your qdbus comand, I get this message:
> 
> Service 'org.freedesktop.HalManager' does not exist.
> 
> However, HAL has been compiled and is running on my system:
> 
> [dwayne at Chiron ~]$ ps axww | grep hal
> 1257  -  Ss      0:16.32 /usr/local/sbin/hald
> 1258  -  I       0:00.09 hald-runner
> 1286  -  IW      0:00.00 hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse: /dev/ums0 (hald-addon-
> mouse-sy)
> 1308  -  S       0:05.16 hald-addon-storage: /dev/cd0 (hald-addon-storage)
> 5495  -  S       0:01.78 hald-addon-storage: /dev/da0 (hald-addon-storage)
> 5500  -  S       0:01.66 hald-addon-storage: /dev/da1 (hald-addon-storage)
> 
> Hope this helps a bit.
> 
> Cheers,
> DMK
> 
> (Running FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE amd64)
> 
> On Saturday, January 4, 2020 12:16:30 P.M. EST David Faure wrote:
> > solid/src/CMakeLists.txt offers the option to use "UDisks2/bsdisks backend
> > instead of HAL to manage disk devices" on FreeBSD, but OFF by default.
> > 
> > So the default is the HAL backend, which however completely fails on CI:
> > https://build.kde.org/job/Frameworks/view/Platform%20-%20FreeBSDQt5.13/job
> > /s
> > olid/job/kf5-qt5%20FreeBSDQt5.13/52/testReport/projectroot/autotests/halb
> > asi ctest/ basically says that org.freedesktop.Hal is not running (on the
> > system bus)
> > 
> > FreeBSD users: does `qdbus --system org.freedesktop.HalManager` work for
> > you? If it does, any idea what should be done on the CI to make that work
> > there?
> > 
> > I'm really hoping for fully-green unittests one day, but FreeBSD isn't
> > really helping with that :-)


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