I had similar troubles with hal. The easiest solutions is to get rid of hal. Deinstall it. The xorg-package you can compile without hal (use make configure and uncheck hal) and it will work.
Cheers herb langhans On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 03:59:23PM -0700, chr...@uvic.ca wrote: > I have several related problems with hald on 7.2 i386. First, on one > machine (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2), hald will not start at startup, nor by > executing the startup script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start. It doesn't > exit with any error code: it simply produces no output at all, and ps -ax > | grep hal shows that it didn't start. Incidentally, the dbus and cupsd > scripts in the same directory also do nothing. > > On the other machine, however (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE), hald doesn't *build*. > It errors out with: > > /usr/local/lib/libpolkit.so: undefined reference to `strn...@fbsd_1.1' > gmake[4]: *** [hald] Error 1 > gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.11/hald' > gmake[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.11/hald' > gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2 > gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.11/hald' > gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/sysutils/hal/work/hal-0.5.11' > gmake: *** [all] Error 2 > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/hal. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/hal. > > This machine was a new install from the 7.2 i386 CD, so to save time I > used packages that had already been built on the first machine. All of > these packages were built within a day of each other, from a previously > updated ports tree with all previously installed packages removed. > > Xorg and hald and dbus and everything related installed just fine, and > Xorg works, except that the mouse doesn't work, which I suspect is caused > by hald not working. On this machine, the hald that was compiled on the > first machine won't start, this time giving an error: > > r...@nimue /usr/local/etc/rc.d > # ./hald start > Starting hald. > > r...@nimue > /usr/local/etc/rc.d > # /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libc.so.7: version FBSD_1.1 required by > /usr/local/lib/libpolkit.so.2 not found > > Any thoughts? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- sprachtraining langhans herbert langhans, warschau http://www.langhans.com.pl herbert dot raimund at gmx dot net +0048 603 341 441 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"