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After some reconfiguration on my FC4-System the haldaemon can no longer be started. Is there a problem with my dbus installation? Does anyone have a guess?
[root@ranatra ~]# service haldaemon start
Starting HAL daemon: [failed]
Distribution: RHEL/CentOS/SL 5 i386 and x86_64 pata for IDE in use
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You might want to consider making a backup of everything that is of importance to you (system settings, docs, bookmarks, passords and such) and start fresh. Something is not right with the system, could be one of the services is not working right or your missing something of importance to dbus and message bus. Could be a kernel problem like;
I too am having Hal daemon failure. But when I try the mentioned service restart I get the message that the stop failed and the start is OK like in the quote. What do I do at this point?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lenard
Very strange, I was expecting to see at least some type of message like;
# service messagebus restart
Stopping system message bus: [FAILED]
Starting system message bus: [ OK ]
or a message that states something along the lines of, system message bus could not be started.
Distribution: RHEL/CentOS/SL 5 i386 and x86_64 pata for IDE in use
Posts: 4,790
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Check if the smartd service may be causing the problem; /sbin/chkconfig -list smartd
If the service is on then shut it down; service smartd stop
Then try restarting the messagebus service; service messagebus
If it stops and restarts then consider shutting the smartd service off;
I have been having the same problem getting hald to start. Reading the post by Lenard below
# service messagebus restart
Stopping system message bus: [FAILED]
Starting system message bus: [ OK ]
This mean the messagebus was not running becasue it failed to stop it. I found then that afterwards I could start haldaemon /etc/init.d/haldaemon restart
Checking in services under the fedora main menu it showed that messagebus was not checked and wasn't being started on boot. Checking messagebus, saving and rebooting fixed my problem.
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