[kde-linux] KDE 3.5.0 + dbus/hal trouble

[Tomek Jarzynka]

Hi,

I've been trying to get KDE 3.5.0 running with DBUS/hal for a few days
now, with no success. KDE is compiled with dbus support, there is an
option checked in the configuration, but media:/ shows only some network
shares, no hardware, nevermind the hotplug notification.

Could anyone give me a clue where to look for the source of the problem?
DBUS and hal are kind of poorly documented and I really didn't find
anything relevant on Google.

Here's my system configuration:

KDE 3.5.0 is entirely from sources.

[tomee at aereo ~]$ uname -a
Linux aereo.cpi.pl 2.6.11-10mdkcustom #7 Wed Feb 22 17:14:00 CET 2006 i686 
unknown unknown GNU/Linux

[tomee at aereo ~]$ rpm -q dbus
dbus-0.60-2mdk

[tomee at aereo ~]$ rpm -q hal
hal-0.5.6-1



DBUS and hal seem to be running OK:


[tomee at aereo ~]$ ps aux | grep dbus
message   6618  0.0  0.2  2156 1056 ?        Ss   09:31   0:00 dbus-daemon 
--system
tomee     7727  0.0  0.1  2592  740 ?        S    09:32   0:00 dbus-launch 
--exit-with-session /usr/bin/startkde
tomee     7728  0.0  0.1  2028  728 ?        Ss   09:32   0:00 dbus-daemon 
--fork --print-pid 8 --print-address 6 --session
tomee    25811  0.0  0.1  1916  644 pts/1    R+   10:50   0:00 grep dbus

[tomee at aereo ~]$ ps aux | grep hal
root      7356  0.0  0.3  3624 2052 ?        Ss   09:32   0:00 hald 
--retain-privileges
root      7361  0.0  0.1  1856  624 ?        S    09:32   0:00 hald-addon-acpi
tomee    25835  0.0  0.1  1916  648 pts/1    S+   10:50   0:00 grep hal


That's the output of dbus-monitor from KDE terminal. I don't understand it:

[tomee at aereo ~]$ dbus-monitor --session
signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=:1.0 
interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameAcquired
 string ":1.0"
method call sender=:1.0 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus 
interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=AddMatch
 string "type='method_call'"
method call sender=:1.0 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus 
interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=AddMatch
 string "type='method_return'"
method call sender=:1.0 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus 
interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=AddMatch
 string "type='error'"

Thanks in advance!

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