[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#458069: Bug#458069: hald startup hangs

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 12:15:16PM +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>   richard at deodand:~$ ps -ef | grep hal
>   root     12050 12049  0 12:11 ttyp0    00:00:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/hal.postinst configure 
>   root     12077 12050  0 12:11 ttyp0    00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d hal start
>   root     12093 12077  0 12:11 ttyp0    00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/hal start
>   root     12097 12093  0 12:11 ttyp0    00:00:00 /usr/sbin/hald
>   root     12098 12097  0 12:11 ?        00:00:00 [hald] <defunct>
>   richard  12101 11814  0 12:12 ttyp3    00:00:00 grep hal
>   richard at deodand:~$ sudo strace -p 12097
>   Process 12097 attached - interrupt to quit
>   select(4, [3], NULL, [3], {218, 256000} <unfinished ...>
>   Process 12097 detached

Can your run strace -f -s 1024 hald --daemon=no
and hald --deamon=no --verbose=yes

And mail the output of both.

> It looks like it's waiting for a pipe connected to itself to become
> readable.

That would be kinda strange.. Hopefully with the output of the commands i've
asked you to run, we can determine where in the hal code this is happening.

  Sjoerd
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