device issues with 'hald'

[spir]

Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at> wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I know, but as shown in another parts of my post, I get proper feedback when running hald with --verbose:

spir at o:~$ hald --verbose=yes
12:29:37.191 [I] hald.c:680: hal 0.5.13
12:29:37.192 [I] hald.c:681: using child timeout 250s
12:29:37.192 [I] hald.c:690: Will daemonize
12:29:37.192 [I] hald.c:691: Becoming a daemon


> 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"

Yes, I get it listed as you say, with "hald" as process name and "haldaemon" as fake user name.
By the way, why this? Does it mean eg "haldaemon" has, or should have, specific "privileges"?
Anyway, we know hald runs, but it does not respond to lshal requests.

> Cheers,
> Kevin

Denis


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