[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#434830: hal startup excruciating slow

[Michael Biebl]

Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.9.1-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Starting hal takes on the order of two minutes on my laptop.  Running
> hald --verbose=yes --use-syslog
> 
> some of the relevant lines of output include:
> Jul 26 20:38:59 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:38:59.478 [I] acpi.c:1337: acpi_add: acpi_path=/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0 acpi_type=0, parent=0x00000000 
> Jul 26 20:39:51 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:39:51.691 [D] acpi.c:176: Current voltage is unknown, smaller than 50% or greater than design 
> 
> Jul 26 20:39:51 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:39:51.695 [I] acpi.c:1337: acpi_add: acpi_path=/proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC acpi_type=3, parent=0x00000000 
> Jul 26 20:40:27 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:40:27.715 [D] acpi.c:176: Current voltage is unknown, smaller than 50% or greater than design 
> Jul 26 20:40:27 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:40:27.729 [I] hald_dbus.c:4766: *************************** 
> Jul 26 20:40:27 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:40:27.729 [I] hald_dbus.c:4767: ********* got a connection 80ce990 
> Jul 26 20:40:27 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:40:27.729 [I] hald_dbus.c:4768: *************************** 
> Jul 26 20:40:47 Valiant hald[7115]: 20:40:47.795 [D] acpi.c:176: Current voltage is unknown, smaller than 50% or greater than design 
> So there are delays of up to nearly a minute between several of these
> lines.  If you'd like me to send the whole log for the period I was
> bringing up hald, I can...
> 

Hi Joe,

do you still have the problem with the latest hal version?
If so, could you try to run hald as user root
hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes

and attach the ouput to your reply.

How much ram do you have, what's the cpu speed, disk speed etc.

Cheers,
Michael
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