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

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 13:48, billg wrote:
> 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.

You could symlink or copy /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions if you wanted to.
 
> 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.

Test 2 is tomorrow.  Test 3 comes out a couple of weeks after that. 
Test 2 will have both D-BUS 0.22 and I belive a CVS version of HAL along
with all the other goodies.  

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J5