HAL Daemon problems [solved]

[Patkos Csaba]

[sOLUTION: I reinstalled the original version of dbus and libdbus from the install DVD]

 

SO: mandriva 2007.0 powerpack

 

Just made an update from the update sources configured for urpmi. There were lot of updates includeing HAL, avahi, (and dbus I think).

 

After update, hal, dbus, udev starts with no error, but automount deosn't work anymore.

Klick on Konqueror media:/hdc (my dvd drive) returns this error: "Feature only available with HAL"

After manual mount, like: mount /mnt/cdrom2, I can click and access media:/hdc

Unmount, eject options from Konqueror returns same error.

 

I tried to insert my linux dvd and do a "rpmi --install --replacepkgs --force /mnt/cdrom2/.../hal...rpm"

This way I replaced (reinstalled) all dbus, hal, avahi packages I could find. Now dbus works, udev works, BUT avahi and hal fails.

 

Basicly I would like you to help me make a clean reinstall of these packages from the original dvd.

 

Just for the rekord:

old (original) version of HAL: 0.5.7.1-7mdv2007

new version was (I think): 0.5.7.1-9mdv2007

 

Please help, I can mount cd's manualy, but others useing my pc .... can't.... :(

[scarecrow]

I guess HAL is running as a system daemon, or not?

dbus doesn't have to- every time HAL needs to do something it will call dmus itself.

[Patkos Csaba]

Current situation is:

 

With mandriva control center I installed all updates again.

HAL daemon still not starts. Avahi same.

I tryed stop udev and start hal - same result.

I tryed stop messagebus and start hal - same result.

Udev and messagebus runs OK as daemons, no errors.

 

I tryed a "service haldaemon start --debug", here are the parts of the output which were marked in red:

 

+ gprintf FAILED

+ '[' -x /bin/gettext -a -n FAILED ']'

+ '[' -n en_US.UTF-8 ']'

++ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

++ LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en

++ gettext -e --domain=initscripts -- FAILED

+ local TEXT=FAILED

+ '[' FAILED ']'

+ shift

+ printf -- FAILED

FAILED+ '[' color = color ']'

+ echo -en '\033[0;39m'

 

after these lines follosws written in white (grey):

 

+ echo -n ']'

]+ echo -ne '\r'

+ return 1

+ '[' -w /var/gdm/.gdmfifo ']'

+ return 1

+ unset LD_PRELOAD

+ return 1

+ RETVAL=1

+ echo

 

+ '[' 1 -eq 0 ']'

+ exit 1

+ exit 1

[root@localhost ~]#

 

Hope this helps you figure out my problem.

 

But still, please explain me, how to reinstall these packages and everything related. I tryed uninstalling hal from control center, but it told me that other about 50 applications must be removed in order to satisfy dependencies ... this solution is not acceptable.

[Patkos Csaba]

After some digging ... I tried to start hal in this way:

 

/usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes

 

After a long output of all kind of interfaces and devices it crashes. These are the las few lines:

 

22:40:14.587 [D] hald_dbus.c:1192: udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/103, key=volume.fsusage

12910: 22:40:14.588: probe-volume.c:118: volume.fsusage = 'filesystem'

22:40:14.588 [D] hald_dbus.c:1192: udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/103, key=volume.fstype

12910: 22:40:14.588: probe-volume.c:121: volume.fstype = 'iso9660'

22:40:14.589 [D] hald_dbus.c:1192: udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/103, key=volume.uuid

12910: 22:40:14.589: probe-volume.c:127: volume.uuid = ''

22:40:14.589 [D] hald_dbus.c:1192: udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/103, key=volume.label

12910: 22:40:14.589: probe-volume.c:133: volume.label = '2007.0-Powerpack-i586-disc1'

22:40:14.590 [D] hald_dbus.c:1192: udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/103, key=info.product

22:40:14.594 hald_dbus.c:3173: Client to local_server was disconnected

22:40:14.594 hald_dbus.c:3183: unregistered

/usr/lib/hald-probe-volume exited

22:40:14.596 blockdev.c:377: entering; exit_type=0, return_code=0

22:40:14.596 blockdev.c:252: * found mounts dev rootfs (3:3)

22:40:14.596 blockdev.c:263: match /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_2007_0_Powerpack_i586_disc1 (22:0)

22:40:14.596 blockdev.c:252: * found mounts dev /dev/root (3:3)

22:40:14.596 blockdev.c:263: match /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_2007_0_Powerpack_i586_disc1 (22:0)

22:40:14.596 blockdev.c:252: * found mounts dev /dev/hda7 (3:7)

22:40:14.596 blockdev.c:263: match /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_2007_0_Powerpack_i586_disc1 (22:0)

22:40:14.596 blockdev.c:252: * found mounts dev /dev/hda1 (3:1)

22:40:14.596 blockdev.c:263: match /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_2007_0_Powerpack_i586_disc1 (22:0)

22:40:14.598 blockdev.c:291: set /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_2007_0_Powerpack_i586_disc1 to unmounted

22:40:14.607 device_info.c:1427: *** Matched file /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi

22:40:14.608 blockdev.c:141: Add callouts completed udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_2007_0_Powerpack_i586_disc1

22:40:14.608 hald.c:82: Added device to GDL; udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_2007_0_Powerpack_i586_disc1

22:40:14.608 hald.c:616: Device probing completed

22:40:14.608 hald_dbus.c:3251: entering

22:40:14.608 [E] hald_dbus.c:3258: dbus_bus_get(): Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

Sent kill to 12884

Sent kill to 12900

Sent kill to 12902

Sent kill to 12889

/usr/lib/hald-addon-storage exited

/usr/lib/hald-addon-acpi exited

/usr/lib/hald-addon-keyboard exited

/usr/lib/hald-addon-storage exited

 

 

So, as I understand all these ... I may look after dbus (messagebus service) to find out my problem. It seems that it more related to dbus, it is?

 

About this line in the above text:

Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

 

Ofcourse the file exists.

[root@localhost log]# ls -l /var/run/dbus

total 0

srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 24 15:54 system_dbus_socket=