On Tuesday 04 November 2008 09:19, Simon Geard wrote: > > The call dies on a function "inotify" ( ? ? ) > > Could be you've built the kernel without inotify (CONFIG_INOTIFY) > support? Look for it under File Systems in the menus or config file
Hallo Simon, exactly this was the case ! thanks a lot for the hint. After building the kernel with inotify, hal started. However: I did not find any comments neither in the BLFS-book nor in the hal "readme" file telling me that inotify needs to be checked in ".config" when building the kernel, if hal is to be included. It was also a kind of luck, that I got the "Unable to initialize inotify:" message. This did not happen regulary. In short: I would propose to put a note in the readme file of hal, telling that the kernel has to be configured accordingly. By the way, it seems to me, that some notes about needed functions in the kernel should be included for such pakets that need it. I presume that "hal" is not the only issue asking for a special feature, and actually, nobody is telling you ( in the book ) how to configure the kernel. Or am I wrong ? I would like to get your opinions. Edgar -- --------------------- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers Weinheim -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
