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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:38:24 -0400
From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: New dbus port breaks hald
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On 10/25/10 4:04 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> This weekend I upgraded dbus from 1.2.24_2 to 1.4.0. The upgrade
> reported no problems and dbus appears to start up just fine, but hald
> does not. It exits during initialization with:
> 11:52:44.493 [I] hald_runner.c:110: runner_server_message_handler: destination=(null) obj_path=/org/freedesktop/DBus/Local interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Local method=Disconnected
> 11:52:44.493 [I] hald_runner.c:151: runner process disconnected
> *** [DIE] hald_runner.c:runner_died():204 : Runner died
> 
> I have had this happen on at least 10 attempts to start hald, but on ONE
> occasion, hald started normally, so I suspect a race.
> 
> I have submitted a PR, ports/151725, which has more detail and I have
> rolled back to 1.2.24_2. 
> 
> Any other information I can supply to help track this down?

Works for me.  It looks like hal may be crashing.  Are you seeing
anything in dmesg?  Are you seeing any core dumps?  What happens if you
run hald from gdb with --daemon=no?

Joe

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