[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#561460: hal: breaks kdm login and xrandr

[Michael Biebl]

Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.14-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi
> 
> Upon upgrading to hal 0.5.14-1, logging into KDE4 through kdm starts 
> failing. While the password seems to be accepted and a KDE session starts 
> to load, it fails immediately, the screen turns black and kdm appears 
> again. Restarting hal or trying to log in several times usually succeeds 
> after a few attempts.

I fail to see how hal could cause such an issue. Have you checked the log files
(Xorg.0.log, messages, syslog, ~/.xsession-errors) for error messages?
This looks more like an X issue.

Could you compare a lshal dump before and after the upgrade, do you have any
noticeable differences?

Michael

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