Re: apcupsd and hal

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 07:20:24 +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:02:07PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 16:21:50 +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > it seems like my apcupsd deamon get stuck when hal is probing
> > > /dev/usb/hidinput0 (the ups).
> > > 
> > > when I kill hal apcupsd is okay, otherwise it get stuck can't kill it
> > > with -9 :(
> > > 
> > > how can i tell hal to not watch for the ups ?
> > > 
> > > or is there some other work around for this ?
> > 
> > I think the problem may be due to /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-hid-ups
> > interfering with apcupsd, therefore I would try to comment out this
> > section
> > 
> >   <device>
> >     <match key="hiddev.application_pages" contains="Power Device Page">
> >       <append key="info.addons" type="strlist">hald-addon-hid-ups</append>
> >     </match>
> >   </device>
> > 
> > in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-power-mgmt-policy.fdi and
> > then restart hal.
> 
> Thanks for that, I presume <!-- --> is the right way to commend out.

Yes, that should be it.

> But now I am getting these usbhid: control queue full, seems to be a
> problem from the 2.6.0 days

If removing the handler leads to the queue filling up then maybe you
could replace it like this: 

      <append key="info.addons" type="strlist">/bin/true</append>

(I have never tried this.)

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