device issues with 'hald'

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2009-11-19, spir wrote:

> * There is an issue about hal and solid, or rather they do not seem
>   to understand each other. Seems to be rather on hald's side, for
>   even if hald runs I cannot execute 'lshal'; output: spir at o:~$
>   lshal Could not initialise connection to hald. Normally this means
>   the HAL daemon (hald) is not running or not ready.

> * I also tried (found on another thread):
>     spir at o:/media/cdrom0$ hal-disable-polling --enable
>   --device /dev/cdrom Could not initialise connection to hald.
>     Normally this means the HAL daemon (hald) is not running or not
>   ready.

Both errors say that hald is probably not running.
Can you check your process list, e.g. through CTRL+ESC, if hald or 
/usr/sbin/hald or similar show up?

Most like as a system user, here is uses "haldaemon"

> * Finally, I found 'hal-info' installed, according to KPackageKit,
>   but: spir at o:/media/cdrom0$ hal-info
>   No command 'hal-info' found, did you mean:
>   Command 'al-info' from package 'flightgear' (universe)
>   hal-info: command not found

hal-info is basically a data  package (no programs), containing device 
configuration data files for HAL.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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