[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#526421: hald segfault seems to prevent X11 startup too

[Tom Epperly]

It seems to be working today. I've been running 'apt-get update ; apt-get 
upgrade -u' everyday hoping to pick up a fix, so something must have 
changed.

Tom
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faerun:~# ls -al /etc/rc?.d/???hal
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-07-07 13:02 /etc/rc1.d/K16hal -> ../init.d/hal
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-07-07 13:02 /etc/rc2.d/S24hal -> ../init.d/hal
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-07-07 13:02 /etc/rc3.d/S24hal -> ../init.d/hal
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-07-07 13:02 /etc/rc4.d/S24hal -> ../init.d/hal
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-07-07 13:02 /etc/rc5.d/S24hal -> ../init.d/hal
faerun:~# hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
07:32:13.084 [I] hald.c:680: hal 0.5.12
07:32:13.084 [I] hald.c:681: using child timeout 250s
07:32:13.084 [I] hald.c:746: Will not daemonize
07:32:13.085 [I] hald_dbus.c:5421: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-wvmsHG2vtY,guid=721f3fefc397868e87aa46a44a004ded
07:32:13.088 [I] ck-tracker.c:391: got seat '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1'
07:32:13.089 [I] ck-tracker.c:321: got session '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2' for seat '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1'
07:32:13.091 [I] ck-tracker.c:274: Got active state (ACTIVE) and uid 0 on session '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2'
07:32:13.091 [I] ck-tracker.c:321: got session '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session3' for seat '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1'
07:32:13.092 [I] ck-tracker.c:274: Got active state (INACTIVE) and uid 1000 on session '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session3'
07:32:13.092 [I] ck-tracker.c:342: Got all sessions on seat '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1'
07:32:13.093 [I] ck-tracker.c:418: Got seats
07:32:13.093 [I] ck-tracker.c:816: Got seats and sessions
07:32:13.094 [I] hald_runner.c:301: Runner has pid 5318
Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/lib/hal:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin'
07:32:13.096 [I] hald_runner.c:182: runner connection is 0x937160
07:32:13.097 [W] osspec.c:387: Unable to open /proc/mdstat: No such file or directory
07:32:13.101 [I] mmap_cache.c:278: cache mtime is 1241489491
Error binding udev_event socket: Address already in use
faerun:~# grep hald /var/log/syslog.0
May  3 16:24:04 faerun kernel: [31676.137743] hald[13522]: segfault at 7f5f4717522c ip 0000000000411738 sp 00007fffee04eb30 error 4 in hald[400000+55000]
May  3 16:24:46 faerun kernel: [31718.102863] hald[14326]: segfault at 7fc50da2022c ip 0000000000411738 sp 00007fffb48fa3f0 error 4 in hald[400000+55000]
May  3 20:29:24 faerun kernel: [46395.602663] hald[15568]: segfault at 7f540f6f122c ip 0000000000411738 sp 00007fffb65cafc0 error 4 in hald[400000+55000]
May  3 20:36:56 faerun kernel: [46848.082919] hald[18952]: segfault at 7f06674a322c ip 0000000000411738 sp 00007fff0e37cdd0 error 4 in hald[400000+55000]
May  4 19:06:24 faerun kernel: [   46.771354] hald[3599]: segfault at 7f5d32ad422c ip 0000000000411738 sp 00007fffd99af940 error 4 in hald[400000+55000]
faerun:~#