device issues with 'hald'

[spir]

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

> > > 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  
> 
> But this is you explicitly starting hald as a user. hald is a system service.
> All its clients will look for it on the D-Bus system bus.
> 
> Try this:
> dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus 
> /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames | grep Hal
> 
> that should give an output like
> 
>       string "org.freedesktop.Hal"

Exactly. does this mean hald runs fine?

Denis


___________________________________________________
This message is from the kde mailing list.
Account management:  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.
Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.
More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.