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Date:      Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:41:50 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
To:        Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Gnome causes kernel panics (probably hald)
Message-ID:  <484984EE.6060706@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080606201919.3c3e7efe@yokozuna.lan>
References:  <20080606201919.3c3e7efe@yokozuna.lan>

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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



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