Re: HAL crashes with dbus

[Kristian Lampen <kristianlampen@gmx.de>]

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 13:44:10 +0200, Kristian Lampen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use the recent sid installation, kernel 2.6.18 (update almost everyday). 
> > As I tried to use my USB-Stick yesterday, I recognised that kde does not 
> > mount it automatically (the same with cdrom). The last time before two 
> > weeks all worked well.
> >
> > I found out, that the hal daemon crashes on startup:
> >
> > sid:~# /etc/init.d/dbus restart
> > Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.
> > 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
> > Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.
> >
> > I didn´t change the hal configuration, so maybe the reason is a update of 
> > the hal system?
> >
> > sid:~# apt-cache policy hal dbus udev
> > hal:
> >   Installiert:0.5.9-2
>
> [...]
>
> > dbus:
> >   Installiert:1.0.2-5
>
> [...]
>
> > udev:
> >   Installiert:0.105-4
>
> That combination works for me. Let's check if we have the exact same
> version of /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal. You can just compare the MD5sum:
>
> $ md5sum /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal
> 3f1321d3006e133c789494981569d198  /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal
>
> (I am not sure if this script is architecture-dependent. The MD5sum
>  seems to be the same for i386 and amd64.)

My MD5 is the same, but I recognised that HAL works if I use the 
standard-kernel-image 2.6-686 (2.6.18+6), or the standart 2.6.20 kernel.
Usually I use a selfcompiled 2.6.18. I did´t change this kernel in the 
last month, so the problem must be, that a updated version of hal needs 
some other kernel options or modules to be active.

Does anyone know which options/modules have to be enabled for HAL?

Thanks Kristian