Most useful tool in Debian (was Re: SOLVED Re: dmesg reports connection ...)
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On 04/01/08 12:12, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:59:36 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 04/01/08 04:11, Arthur Marsh wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>
>>> If one shouldn't need to restart debian for the purging of
>>> hal-device-manager to take effect, should I have run /etc/init.d/hal
>>> restart ?
>> That seems reasonable...
>
> When I see weird behavior of KDE with respect to devices (this happens
> only very rarely), I do this:
>
> - log out/close the KDE session
> - restart udev
> - restart dbus (which, among other things, restarts hal)
> - log in/start KDE again
>
> More generally speaking, you can use "checkrestart" from the
> "debian-goodies" package to find out which services need to be restarted
> after upgrades or other library-related changes to your system.
I'd say that checkrestart is an *extraordinarily* useful. Even, as
the Subject says, the most useful.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
We want... a Shrubbery!!
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