[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#614331: hald does not start automatically on bootup

[Martin Pitt]

Ron Murray [2011-02-20 22:58 -0500]:
> Since the recent hal upgrade and the change to d-bus activation, hald
> is not starting on bootup on at least three of my Debian
> machines. Running 'lshal' as root starts it up just fine, and it works
> normally thereafter as far as I can see. 

So it behaves exactly as it is supposed to. Most programs don't need
hal any more, so it shouldn't slow down boot and consume extra
CPU/battery power in vain.

What is the actual bug here? Does some of your application or hardware
control not work properly any more?

Martin
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