haldaemon problem

[david walcroft]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> david walcroft wrote:
>   
>>> Pardon my ignorance but what are my options.
>>>
>>> rpm {-V|--verify} [select-options] [verify-options]
>>>       
>
> A little further down in the rpm manpage, the select-options and
> verify-options are given:
>
>    select-options
>         [PACKAGE_NAME] [-a,--all] [-f,--file FILE]
>         [-g,--group GROUP] {-p,--package PACKAGE_FILE]
>         [--fileid MD5] [--hdrid SHA1] [--pkgid MD5] [--tid TID]
>         [--querybynumber HDRNUM] [--triggeredby PACKAGE_NAME]
>         [--whatprovides CAPABILITY] [--whatrequires CAPABILITY]
>
> ...
>
>    verify-options
>         [--nodeps] [--nofiles] [--noscripts]
>         [--nodigest] [--nosignature]
>         [--nolinkto] [--nomd5] [--nosize] [--nouser]
>         [--nogroup] [--nomtime] [--nomode] [--nordev]
>
> Further down that that, the PACKAGE SELECTION OPTIONS and VERIFY
> OPTIONS sections got into more detail about each of these options.
>
> For the purposes of finding out whether something was wrong with your
> hal or hal-libs packages, you don't need any particular options except
> for the command I suggested (rpm -V hal hal-libs).  That command will
> verify that the packages hal and hal-lib are installed and that the
> contents of those packages matches what was installed by rpm
> originally.
>
>   
>> OK I found some more reading and found "rpm -vv"
>> There was nothing about 'hal'
>>     
>
> rpm -vv will just show the help if run by itself.  Were you adding
> some other options in addition to -vv?
>
> As I see it, to determine what you're having a problem starting and
> stopping the hal daemon, you want to first verify that the hal
> packages are installed and that they match what was installed by rpm
> (using the rpm -V command above).  If that command produces no output,
> then all should be well with your install.  The next step would be to
> see if there is any information in the system logs about the failures.
> Step 3: ??  Step 4: Profit! :)
>
>   
Rpm -V hal shows nothing
[david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo rpm -V hal hal-libs
[david at reddwarf ~]$


      david