HALdaemon fails

[Tony Dietrich]

On Saturday 04 March 2006 20:56, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> On Saturday 04 March 2006 20:50, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since a few weeks haldaemon fails on one of my machines.
> > Starting the service just shows :
> > /sbin/service haldaemon restart
> > Stopping HAL daemon:                                       [FAILED]
> > Starting HAL daemon:                                       [FAILED]
> >
> > Starting hald manually :
> > /usr/sbin/hald --verbose=yes
> > 20:47:10.722 [I] hald.c:495: hal 0.5.2
> > 20:47:10.722 [I] hald.c:497: Will daemonize
> > 20:47:10.722 [I] hald.c:507: Becoming a daemon
> >
> > After this it just dies.
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea how to get it working again ?
>
> BTW, I'm on X86-64 FC4.
>
> Do other users have the same issue ?
>
> Regards,
> Marcel

Check for an orphaned lock file.
-- 
Tony