I'm no hald export, but I think you're mixing commands. Seems like you want to restart the hald init service, but you're actually just calling the daemon straight-up. I think you want: sudo /etc/init.d/hald restart Sine the --retain-privileges option is set in /etc/default/hal file you shouldn't need it on the command-line (the init script won't accept it anyway). If it still fails, add "--verbose=yes" to /etc/default/hal file to get some debug messages. Let us know what happens... -Jared On 5/22/06, Chuck Noyes <vze284qe@verizon.net> wrote:
Hi All
I upgraded by laptop from 'breezy' to 'dapper'. It looks like the hald does not accept the --retain-privileges argument, even though the upgrade tool added it to the /etc/default/hal file. Now the hald won't start. Also, my USB thumb drives won't automount. I'm thinking it may be related to the hald problem.
If I run 'sudo hald --retain-privileges restart', the command fails with the help screen for the command.
Has anyone else out there seen this problem? Anyone got a fix?
I can always comment out the 'DAEMON-OPT=--retain-privileges' line in the /etc/default/hal file, so the hald starts without error, but the USB drives still don't automount.
Thanks, -Chuck _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug