[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#634991: hal: No more working input devices under X: (EE) config/hal: couldn't find input device: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited (Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1)

[Axel Beckert]

merge 632900 634991
kthxbye

Hi Michael,

Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Since somewhen after FOSDEM, input devices under X do not work
> > anymore, independently if I have an xorg.conf or not, independently if
> > I use startx, xdm, kdm or gdm3.
> > 
> > I always get the following error message in Xorg.0.log or on the
> > console with startx:
> > 
> > (EE) config/hal: couldn't find input device: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited (Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1)
> 
> Most likely a dup of [1], i.e. a missing /var/run/hald directory on kfreebsd
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632900
> 
> Could you create that directory and re-test?

That was it! Thanks.

> As this is not a persistent solution (with tmpfs for /run), you can
> try replacing /usr/sbin/hald with a shell script that creates
> /var/run/hald and then execs /usr/sbin/hald.orig

The manual solution fully suffices for me.

		Regards, Axel
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