weird haldaemon problem after update from FC3 to FC4....

[Kim Lux]

It had something to do with being an upgrade.  

I did a fresh install and all is well. 


On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 20:30 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> I updated an FC3 computer to FC4.  Printing didn't work on it when it
> was FC3. 
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> The printer won't appear in system-config-printers after the update.  It
> didn't before the update either. I did a bunch of tracing and figured
> out that something was wrong with dbus and haldaemon.  I went to
> system-config-services and stopped hald.  When I restart it, it gives an
> error:
> 
> haldaemon failed. The error was: Starting HAL daemon:
>  [FAILED]
> 
> OK... 
> 
> I go to /etc/init.d and find haldaeon.
> 
> Starting and stopping it gives:
> #./haldaemon start
> Starting HAL daemon:                                       [FAILED]
> 
> OK. 
> 
> I go into haldaemon and find:
> ================================================================
> processname=hald
> servicename=haldaemon
> 
> RETVAL=0
> 
> start() {
>     echo -n $"Starting HAL daemon: "
>     daemon --check $servicename $processname --retain-privileges
> ...
> =================================================================
> 
> So... I try it manually:
> 
> hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes --retain-privileges
> 20:24:16.452 [I] hald.c:495: hal 0.5.2
> 20:24:16.452 [I] hald.c:497: Will daemonize
> 20:24:16.452 [I] hald.c:507: Becoming a daemon
> 
> No errors !
> 
> I can't find the path to daemon to see if I can call hald like it does in haldaemon. 
> 
> Any ideas ?
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> Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.
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Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.