On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:07:49 +0200
Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
> n Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 21:25:29 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > For the past few weeks I've been seeing an error message fly by
> > (doesn't seem to affect anything) and I curious what's going on.
> >
> > the message is:
> >
> > dbus unknown username "haldemon" in message bus configuration file.
>
> It should be "haldaemon". (I assume this is just a typo since you
> probably could not copy/paste the message directly.) The relevant
> configuration file is /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf:
>
> $ grep -A2 haldaemon /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf
> <!-- Only root or user haldaemon can own the HAL service -->
> <policy user="haldaemon">
> <allow own="org.freedesktop.Hal"/>
> </policy>
I have no hal.conf in that directory ??
>
> Hald, the daemon that manages the Hardware Abstraction Layer, used to
> run as the system user "hal". About a year ago (version 0.5.7.1-1)
> this was changed to user "haldaemon" (maybe to free "hal" as a name
> for normal users). It seems that this transition was not carried out
> correctly on your system. The post-installation script of the hal
> package is supposed to create the haldaemon user and group if they do
> not exist. You can check if the user exists:
>
> $ grep hal /etc/passwd
and no hal or haldaemon user???
Cheers
Frank
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