[SM-Discuss] HAL strangeness

Treeve Jelbert treeve at scarlet.be
Sun Apr 19 05:29:33 EDT 2009


My linux system has been out of commission for a couple of days.  Everything 
would freeze when entering run level 5.

Eventually I found an error message from xorg, refering to HAL.  I then 
discovered that hald had crashed.

I tried recompiling hal, dbus, etc.  I tried different kernels. I tried the git 
version of hal. I enabled debugging in hal which generated masses of data, 
mostly unintelligible.  I did see some messages about the cd drives near the 
end of the debug messages.

Finally I removed one of the cd drives.  Everything now works again.  
I suspect some sort of race condition with dual cd drives (1 sata, 1 pata) and 
a dual core processor.



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Regards, Treeve



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