Re: How Do I Setup Dbus & Hal on Fedora?

["billg" <billg f-m fm>]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:46:04 -0400, "John (J5) Palmieri"
<johnp redhat com> said:
> On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 06:51, billg wrote:
> > I've built 2.8.0 on a Fedora Core 2 machine...How do I configure
> > dbus and hal? Hald doesn't appear to be running.  How do I ensure
> > that Garnome's dbus is used rather than Fedora's?
>
> First thing to do on Fedora is go into the <garnome
> prefix>/etc/dbus-1/system.conf file and change the user from dbus to
> messagebus.  Next you need to stop the current dbus
> "/etc/rc.d/init.d/messagebus stop"  and start the other one "<garnome
> prefix>/etc/rc.d/init.d/messagebus start".  After that start hal
> "<garnome prefix>/etc/rc.d/init.d/haldaemon start"...

Thanks. Both the haldaemon and messagebus scripts want to see a
"functions" script in <garnome>/.../init.d, but that script has gone
missing here.

I've also got compilation problems with some of the other goodies. So,
I'll probably...

> Note that FC3 will ship with Gnome 2.8 and the latest releases of dbus
> and hal.

...wait and install tomorrow's Test3.

billg