Art Alexion on 1 Nov 2006 15:25:01 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] After dist_upgrade, kubuntu system won't boot


On Wednesday 01 November 2006 02:17, Will Dyson wrote:
> On 10/31/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote:
> > Right.  That is the problem.  The script is 20hal.  It starts hald.  I
> > attached it earlier.  I don't think the script itself is the problem,
> > though, because I can't start hal in daemonized mode even without the
> > script.
>
> Hmm. If you run 'hald --daemon=no' in a terminal, do the things that
> depend on it start working? Like lshal, for example. That would be
> strange if it did, I think.

I don't know.

>
> So lets see what is going wrong with hald in daemonize mode. As
> Stephen pointed out, strace takes an -f argument to follow children of
> the traced program. Using it should reveal what is going on with it in
> daemonize mode.
>
> # strace -f -o hald.strace -s 150 hald

This command basically froze the terminal for a couple of hours until I killed 
hald from another terminal.  There was a resulting file, but it was over 13 
MB, so I ran it again to get this smaller file.  Again, the attachment is 
sent off-list.

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