Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: upstart
On a 64bit machine with kubuntu 9.10 and a software raid, I have
recently started to observe the following:
- when I boot the machine, keyboard and mouse do not work at the kdm
login screen
This also happened in the past but only very rarely. Now it always
happens.
By looking into the matter, I have seen that X cannot see the keyboard
and the mouse because hald is not running.
However hald should be started at boot via upstart.
By running dmesg, I see that upstart does in fact try to start hald,
however, hald immediately dies with a SEGFAULT, upstart tries respawning
and hald dies again, and so on...
Here the interesting part starts...
If at the prompt I try starting hald via upstart as in
sudo start hal
or
sudo service hal start
again upstart fails to start hald in the sense that hald called from
upstart immediately segfaults.
the same happens if I try to start hald from rc.local (which I believe
is once again run by upstart).
On the other hand, if at the prompt I try starting hald directly, as in
sudo hald --daemon=yes
then hald is quite happy and starts properly.
So I wonder what kind of environment upstart is passing to hald to make it
crash.
Since I have many karmic machines and this one is the only one giving
the issue, I have tried to look at what may be different here. The only
thing that I have noticed is that this is the only machine with a
software raid + lvm. All the others only have lvm but no raid. I have
also noticed that from the very beginning the raid + lvm configuration
caused the system to complain at boot about having to wait to mount the
disks.
So I wonder if the problem may be due to some critical timing at boot.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 2 17:04:28 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: upstart 0.6.3-11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: upstart
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64
** Affects: upstart (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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hald segfaults when started from hal
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/530785
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