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Date:      Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:14:20 -0500
From:      Paul Dokas <dokas@oitsec.umn.edu>
To:        gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   gdm vs hal
Message-ID:  <47F67E0C.7010608@oitsec.umn.edu>

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I just finished updating my laptop's ports and something appears to broken
between gdm and hal.  First, here's the versions that I currently have installed:

  gdm-2.20.4_5        GNOME 2 version of xdm display manager
  hal-0.5.11.r2_5     Hardware Abstraction Layer for simplifying device access
  hal-info-20080317   Additional FDI files to further classify HAL devices

Now, what happens is that with hald running, gdm starts, draws the stimpled
X background and hangs.  The machine is still running, but gdm goes no further.
Without hald running, gdm starts up just fine.

Here's gdm running with hald also running:

  root       64711 37.4  1.6 36976 32816  p0  S     1:43PM   0:01.65 /usr/local/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt9 (Xorg)
  root       64356  2.4  0.3 13432  5872  p0  S+    1:43PM   0:00.17 /usr/local/sbin/gdm-binary --nodaemon
  root       64520  0.0  0.3 13432  6124  p0  S     1:43PM   0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/gdm-binary --nodaemon
  haldaemon  59388  0.0  0.2  6772  4404  ??  Ss    1:42PM   0:00.92 /usr/local/sbin/hald
  root       59518  0.0  0.1  5676  2396  ??  I     1:42PM   0:00.21 hald-runner
  root       59838  0.0  0.1  5488  2124  ??  S     1:42PM   0:00.16 hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse: /dev/psm0 (hald-addon-mouse-sy)
  root       60154  0.0  0.1  5488  2124  ??  S     1:42PM   0:00.14 hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse: /dev/ums0 (hald-addon-mouse-sy)
  root       61449  0.0  0.1  3596  1556  ??  S     1:42PM   0:00.05 hald-addon-storage: /dev/acd0 (hald-addon-storage)

Here's gdm running without hald:

  root       56387 30.5  1.7 38768 34568  p0  S     1:42PM   0:02.01 /usr/local/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt9 (Xorg)
  gdm        57675  6.2  0.5 22336 10392  ??  Ss    1:42PM   0:00.15 /usr/local/libexec/gdmlogin
  root       56107  5.5  0.3 13432  5956  p0  S+    1:42PM   0:00.41 /usr/local/sbin/gdm-binary --nodaemon
  root       56222  0.0  0.3 13584  6308  p0  S     1:42PM   0:00.05 /usr/local/sbin/gdm-binary --nodaemon

Given the recent changes to add mouse support to hald, and that /var/log/gdm/:0.log
no longer has any mention of a mouse device, I suspect that it was the hald change
that is biting me.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Paul
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Paul Dokas                                     dokas at oitsec.umn.edu
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