Re: Hal error when starting dbus

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 16:35:31 -0400, Brent Bailey wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I try to restart dbus I get an error from hal...
> 
> # /etc/init.d/dbus restart
> Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: hald.
> Stopping system message bus: dbus.
> Starting system message bus: dbus.
> Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldrun-parts:
> /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal exited with return code 1
> 
> I installed dbus (o.93-1), udev (0.5.8.1-1) and hal (0.100-2) and purged
> dbus-1.  The udevd and dbus-daemon are running, but hald does not start. 
> Please let me know if you need any additional information.

Check if the /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal script has the right md5sum:

$ md5sum /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal
26a95a599607bb3bacd616ee203e839e  /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal

Also check if there are any weird options defined in /etc/default/hal.

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Regards,
          Florian