Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:53:32 +0300 From: MandrakeRoot <mandrakeroot@lavabit.com> To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: annoying HAL installation bug and workaround Message-ID: <4804EB9C.2070902@lavabit.com>
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Hello. I have installed Gnome on my Freebsd 7 using pkg_add gnome2 which is the recommended way. In the Gnome Freebsd project documentation . The problem is that the hald package is poorly installed by this method and this issue i found also on some obscure older forums. What happens in fact it is that the haldaemon user is not created and hald cannot start. What is annoying is that although i launched hald with the verbose option it did not spit out any error until i decided to launch it overriding the daemonise option. On that older forum it was assumed that it was a bug in the sysinstall procedure but in fact i think it comes from installing from the binaries as i did not install gnome2 from the beginning on my comp . The workaround i used and which is not my discovery was to uninstall the package and reinstall from source. I think this is a bug that should be solved as soon as possible as HAL seems to be fundamental for a good functioning of gnome. Strangely another issue was suddenly solved . I had not been able previously to access the System/Administration menus, but after i installed HAL again from source i was able to enter the menus which had been previously responding with a " you are not authorised ,blah , blah...." message. Now everything seems to work fine. My usb flash is presented in full glory on my desktop the same as my cdrom. Anyway I noticed that even now the hald man pages are missing... Thanks.
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