From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 18:41:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8962A106566B for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 18:41:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE2B8FC17 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 18:41:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id m56Ifoe25386; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 14:41:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [64.102.220.143] (dhcp-64-102-220-143.cisco.com [64.102.220.143]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id m56Ifou03757; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 14:41:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <484984EE.6060706@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:41:50 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marco Beishuizen References: <20080606201919.3c3e7efe@yokozuna.lan> In-Reply-To: <20080606201919.3c3e7efe@yokozuna.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Gnome Subject: Re: Gnome causes kernel panics (probably hald) X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:41:51 -0000 Marco Beishuizen wrote: > Hi, > > Sometimes FreeBSD has a kernel panic, even at night when the computer > is doing nothing. I suspect it's hald that is causing it. Sometimes > FreeBSD panics when booting and starting gdm. And only then I get > information that hald is causing a page fault. > > When booting I get: > > ... > /etc/rc: WARNING: run_rc_command: cannot run /usr/local/sbin/polkitd > /etc/rc: WARNING: $dbus_enable is not set properly - see rc.conf(5). > ... > > And after that tons of messages every 30 seconds like: > > ... > gnome-keyring-daemon[1371]: Scheduling hal init retry > gnome-keyring-daemon[1371]: failed to initialize a HAL context: (null) > ... > > I start gnome with gnome_enable="YES" in my rc.conf. Problem about hald > is that it just won't start. When I try to start it manually, it just > exits with a "signal 11". > > Anyone an idea how to run hald and make FreeBSD stable again? > I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-stable, Gnome-2.22 and hal-0.5.11. You'll need to provide a lot more detail here. See http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html and http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html for details. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome