hald keeps dying?

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 11:31 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 00:14 -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
> > Recently I've been having to restart haldaemon periodically (to get
> > battery status from gnome-power-manager back), and after a few minutes
> > 'service haldaemon status' will report that hald is stopped.
> > 
> > Nothing about hald shows up in /var/log/messages, and setroubleshooter
> > is quiet. There's this bug in Bugzilla, but it's probably a different
> > problem:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229580
> > 
> > Has anyone noticed something similar?
> 
> Yes, seen this (but a lot less often) on x86 too. Is working on a fix.
> 

What i noticed is that /sbin/service haldaemon status reports
"stopped" when run as a user, but "running", when running as root, so
there is probably some permission problem somewhere.