[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#632900: Bug#632900: hal: potential fix for !linux trouble

[Christoph Egger]

Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:53:50 +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>     I couldn't find out how hald is actually started. However just
>> creating the directory from dbus' init script (as dbus seems to be
>> involved) does work. I've attached a patch against dbus that fixes my
>> problems.
>>
>
> Creating the hal run directory from dbus' init script is obviously not
> the correct fix.
> Please don't NMU dbus for such a change.

Sorry for making it not clear that NMUing wasn't my intention at
all. Putting it in dbus' initscript was motivated by the impression that
hald gets started by dbus as part of it's startup process. However I
can't find anything definite how hald is launched at all.

Regards

    Christoph