Branko Badrljica <bran...@avtomatika.com> posted 494f1518.2020...@avtomatika.com, excerpted below, on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:18:32 +0100:
> Maybe I should have filed this as a bug, but don't have a clue to which > package should I assign it, if any. FWIW, this would have been a perfect question for the gentoo-desktop list, but doesn't really belong on the -dev list. There's also the gentoo-user list, altho that one has very heavy volume so you might not wish to subscribe there. I know you didn't know where to post, so this is simply for future reference. Try to keep the -dev list for technical dev discussion, as every post the devs have to deal with here is time they can't be spending on fixing packages. =:^( > I was forced to switch baselayout from stable 1.12.11* to 2.0.0, which > triggered openrc install etc. I did all that etc , then after some time > I noticed that system doesn't respond to PnP events. > > So I started looking around and have noticed that I have no > /etc/init.d/hald and that hal daemon never gets called during boot. > Then I tried to find alternate hald starting mechanism, but couldn't > find any. I did "emerge -pv system | grep hal" and noticed that hal > damon is not part of the system, but it is part of the world and it gets > reemerged if I unmerge it, since 15-something packages depend on it > throuh "hal" use flag. equery belongs /etc/init.d/hald [ Searching for file(s) /etc/init.d/hald in *... ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.11-r4 (/etc/init.d/hald) So did you actually remerge hal? What version? The above hal-0.5.11-r4 is the ~arch version, but -r1 appears to be the latest stable (except for arm and sh, on which 0.5.9.1-r3 is latest stable) and at least my archived binpkg -r1 has /etc/init.d/hald as well. Even my oldest archived hal-0.5.10 binpkg has that file. So if it's not being created when you remerge hal and you aren't running something terribly outdated, I'd say it's time to look up hal bugs, and to file one if necessary. (As above, please post anything further on the topic to the desktop list, which I read as well, to keep the dev list from getting too cluttered. Thanks.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
