[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#634991: hal: No more working input devices under X: (EE) config/hal: couldn't find input device: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited (Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1)

[Michael Biebl]

Am 21.07.2011 16:45, schrieb Axel Beckert:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.14-6
> Severity: important
> User: debian-bsd at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: kfreebsd-i386
> 
> Since somewhen after FOSDEM, input devices under X do not work
> anymore, independently if I have an xorg.conf or not, independently if
> I use startx, xdm, kdm or gdm3.
> 
> I always get the following error message in Xorg.0.log or on the
> console with startx:
> 
> (EE) config/hal: couldn't find input device: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited (Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1)
> 

Most likely a dup of [1], i.e. a missing /var/run/hald directory on kfreebsd

Could you create that directory and re-test? As this is not a persistent
solution (with tmpfs for /run), you can try replacing /usr/sbin/hald with a
shell script that creates /var/run/hald and then execs /usr/sbin/hald.orig

Michael


[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632900

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