device issues with 'hald'

[Kevin Krammer]

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

Yes, but this brings us back to the question by lshal says it isn't.

Maybe you can check on a distribution specific list or forum. If even the 
basic commandline tools fail to work, there might be something wrong with the 
system setup.

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