Re: Running hald (error spawning hald-probe-smbios)

[Bob Kashani <bobk ocf berkeley edu>]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 18:31 -0400, Ittai Balaban wrote:
> Hi.
> Running garnome-2.12 on FC4. Everything seems fine so far, except for
> hald (and, consequently gnome-volume-manager doesn't work):
> I kill the fc4-native dbus and hal daemons, then manage to run the
> garnome dbus ("sudo garnome/bin/dbus-daemon --system" -- I verified that
> the daemon doesn't die). Then:
> 
>   sudo garnome/sbin/hald --verbose=yes --daemon=no

edit garnome/etc/dbus-1/system.conf and change:

  <!-- Run as special user -->
  <user>messagebus</user>

to:

  <!-- Run as special user -->
  <user>81</user>

rm -rf garnome/var/run/messagebus.pid
sudo garnome/bin/dbus-daemon --system
sudo garnome/sbin/hald --retain-privileges

Bob

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Bob Kashani
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