Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:03:54 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: MandrakeRoot <mandrakeroot@lavabit.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: annoying HAL installation bug and workaround Message-ID: <1208304234.93515.9.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <4804EB9C.2070902@lavabit.com> References: <4804EB9C.2070902@lavabit.com>
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--=-Ht5FUjA0cUWq8ypWWTef Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 20:53 +0300, MandrakeRoot wrote: > Hello. I have installed Gnome on my Freebsd 7 using >=20 > pkg_add gnome2 =20 >=20 > which is the recommended way. In the Gnome Freebsd project documentation= . >=20 > The problem is that the hald package is poorly installed by this method=20 > and this issue i found also on some obscure older forums. What happens=20 > in fact it is that the haldaemon user is not created and hald cannot=20 > start. What is annoying is that although i launched hald with the=20 > verbose option it did not spit out any error until i decided to launch=20 > it overriding the daemonise option. >=20 > On that older forum it was assumed that it was a bug in the sysinstall=20 > procedure but in fact i think it comes from installing from the binaries=20 > as i did not install gnome2 from the beginning on my comp . The=20 > workaround i used and which is not my discovery was to uninstall the=20 > package and reinstall from source. I think this is a bug that should be=20 > solved as soon as possible as HAL seems to be fundamental for a good=20 > functioning of gnome. I have never been able to reproduce this problem. The only way the haldaemon user would not be created during a package installation is if PACKAGE_BUILDING was set in the environment. This variable is not set by the pkg_* tools, but it is set by sysinstall. If you ran pkg_add from a shell outside of sysinstall, and did not have PACKAGE_BUILDING defined in your environment, you should have had the haldaemon user created. >=20 > Strangely another issue was suddenly solved . I had not been able=20 > previously to access the System/Administration menus, but after i=20 > installed HAL again from source i was able to enter the menus which had=20 > been previously responding with a " you are not authorised ,blah ,=20 > blah...." message. The system Administration tools are currently broken on FreeBSD. Fixing these tools is one of the proposed Summer of Code projects as well as a general Idea. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-Ht5FUjA0cUWq8ypWWTef Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkgFQmoACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4fbngCeOPvWlFydYpQhKs6HCQOfIjfU SigAn3v7PGQ/6F4QXmXKi6Eweh6Qi3uP =dszc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Ht5FUjA0cUWq8ypWWTef--
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