[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#529996: hald-addon-acpi wakes up every 5s if acpid isn't installed

[Michael Biebl]

Robert McQueen wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> When debugging a separate issue I turned on --verbose=yes --use-syslog in
> /etc/default/hal and found that I had this error logged every 5 seconds:
> 
> May 22 19:03:00 tau hald-addon-acpi: [3815]: 19:03:00.569 [E] addon-acpi.c:83: Cannot connect to acpid socket: No such file or directory
> May 22 19:03:05 tau hald-addon-acpi: [3815]: 19:03:05.569 [E] addon-acpi.c:83: Cannot connect to acpid socket: No such file or directory
> 
> This system doesn't have acpid installed any longer, so it probably shouldn't
> do this.


Hm, we have a patch which checks for /usr/sbin/acpid being installed and use
that if installed.

Do you really have acpid deinstalled or only deactivated?
Or was hal not restarted after acpid was uninstalled? Does it help if you
restart hal?

Michael



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