Re: boot error
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:42:45 +0200
Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 08:46:01 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:23:54 +0200
> > Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > > > On 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.
>
> > dpkg -l hal\*
>
> > pn hal <none> (no description available)
> > pn hal-device-manager <none> (no description available)
> > pn hal-doc <none> (no description available)
> > pn hal-info <none> (no description available)
> > pn halibut <none> (no description available)
> >
> > Not there. What else could cause the problem ??
>
> The fact that hal is not installed causes the message. Something else
> seems to assume that the haldaemon user exists. You can either ignore
> the message, or install hal (why did you purge it?),
As I recall I didn't purge it - it was removed when some other stuff got installed
during a Kernel update. Again as I recall Hal wasn't (isn't??) compatible with
something else kernel-related.
or find out which
> configuration file on your system contains a reference to haldaemon and
> file a bug against the corresponding package. (I assume that if another
> package has a configuration file that refers to the haldaemon user then
> it should depend or maybe even pre-depend on the hal package.)
>
Well since the error seems to come from dbus, I would think it would be one of
its config files...but there is no reference to hal or haldaemon in them. Very
strange.
Cheers
Frank
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