Re: Strange behavior at session start

[Chris Thiel <cthiel@cse.unl.edu>]

Sjoerd Simons writes:
 > On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:14:50AM -0500, Chris Thiel wrote:
 > > Andreas writes:

 > > I think it's a problem with hald.  I get the following in
 > > .xsession-errors:
 > > 
 > >   --
 > >   libhal.c 767 : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply raised
 > >   "No reply within specified time"
 > > 
 > > 
 > >   ** (gnome-volume-manager:7712): WARNING **: manager.c/1105: seems that HAL is not running
 > >   --
 > > 
 > > Killing the hald process allows logging in to complete (as far as I
 > > can tell).
 > > 
 > > By the way, I use experimental gnome packages.
 > 
 > Which kernel ?

I am using the packaged 2.6.11-1-686 kernel.  More mysteriously
though: I rebooted to try older custom kernels, only to realize I
removed them, and after rebooting with the same kernel, the problem
did not occur with any users.  hald is running normally now.

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Chris Thiel