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hal package

hald can't be started in 13.04

Bug #1192171 reported by DmitryKX
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hal (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
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Bug Description

# hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
09:31:22.859 [I] hald.c:672: hal 0.5.14
09:31:22.859 [I] hald.c:673: using child timeout 250s
09:31:22.859 [I] hald.c:741: Will not daemonize
09:31:22.860 [I] hald_dbus.c:5444: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-RDq0WBU4BC,guid=1f58f0c4a0f368a3bae7621651c0612a
09:31:22.864 [I] hald_runner.c:304: Runner has pid 8790
Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/lib/hal:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin'
09:31:22.868 [I] hald_runner.c:184: runner connection is 0x8410728

** (process:8789): WARNING **: Failed to add monitor on '/etc/hal/fdi/preprobe': No such file or directory

** (process:8789): WARNING **: Failed to add monitor on '/etc/hal/fdi/information': No such file or directory

** (process:8789): WARNING **: Failed to add monitor on '/etc/hal/fdi/policy': No such file or directory
09:31:22.874 [I] mmap_cache.c:278: cache mtime is 1371546768
Error binding udev_event socket: Address already in use

Workaround:

rm -rf /etc/hal
ln -s /usr/share/hal /etc

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in hal (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Michael Blennerhassett (mjblenner) wrote :

Better workaround:

sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe
sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi/information

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DmitryKX (alex-custov) wrote :

>>Better workaround

I disagree, because /etc/hal should contain configuration files (which can be found in /usr/share/hal), not only required directories.

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Michael Blennerhassett (mjblenner) wrote :

Hal scans both /usr/share/hal and /etc/hal. But if the right directories in /etc/hal don't exist it errors out. Adding the symlink means that all the config stuff in /usr/share/hal gets scanned twice.

(and now I know way too much about code that been deprecated for 4 years...)

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Rebecca Menessec (aloishammer-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This seems very likely to be the cause of or at least related to: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323081

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Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb) wrote :

Why are you still interested in hal? It's been deprecated ages ago, and any modern software apps (should) use more robust alternatives such as udev. Also, it's finally being removed from the archive (see LP: #1221254)

Changed in hal (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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DmitryKX (alex-custov) wrote :

>>Why are you still interested in hal?

I use software which depends on HAL

>>Also, it's finally being removed from the archive

It is presented in 13.04. Why you don't want to fix it even with the patch available??

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