[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#542772: hal: HAL deamon locks computer on boot, needs powercycling to recover

[Michael Biebl]

Adam John Trickett wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> 
> When init.d starts hald the computer stops dead and cannot
> be booted. A power cycle is required to restart the machine.
> It is only possible to use the computer with hald disabled.
> 
> The problem has happened on the 2.6.26 and 2.6.30 kernels.
> When running the 2.6.18 kernel I can start hald, though it
> does take an age to start.

Well, it sounds like a kernel related problem then.

Do you have any messages (kernel oops) in the syslog?
Could you disable hal from starting at boot time and then run it afterwards
manually (as root) with "hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes".

Michael

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