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Old 05-18-2010, 05:26 AM   #1
ReeRD
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hald does not start randomly?


On my Debian system hald fails to start randomly. Logs do not show any errors.

When I restart it and it does start, the output looks like this:
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root@LAPTOP:~# /etc/init.d/hal restart
Restarting Hardware abstraction layer: hald.
root@LAPTOP:~#
When I restart it and it does NOT start, the output looks like this:
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root@LAPTOP:~# /etc/init.d/hal restart
Restarting Hardware abstraction layer: haldroot@LAPTOP:~#
As you can see in the latter case some expected output (".\n") is missing. Also, the return code is 1 instead of 0 which clearly indicates a failure.

I tried the same quite a few times and it's completely random. What could be the problem?

Last edited by ReeRD; 05-18-2010 at 05:40 AM.
 
Old 05-19-2010, 01:10 AM   #2
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You could try starting hald at the command line with the --daemon=yes --verbose=yes options in the hope of finding the cause.
 
  


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