Bug 482782

Summary:	anacron complains that it cannot connect to hald
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component:	anacron	Assignee:	Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	beland, mmaslano
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2009-01-28 03:35:18 UTC

Description of problem:

Freshly updated anacron complains on every startup that it failed to connect to hald and that most likely means that the later is not running (while actually it does run).  I do not have an exact wording of an error message as this happens _only_ in a startup sequence and is quickly erased by a login screen even when booting to level 3.

When trying 'service anacron start' after a login then it just shows "[OK}" without any complaints.  In log file one can find "INFO (running with inotify support)" so maybe an error shown on a screen is bogus?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anacron-2.3-66.fc11

How reproducible:
on every startup and only then

Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2009-01-28 12:42:09 UTC

Thank you, fixed in rawhide.

Comment 2 Michal Jaegermann 2009-01-28 22:11:23 UTC

Yeah, looking closer you are right that this is not anacron problem.  This is another instance of bug 479180; only this time with haldaemon service which is running too late.  After 'chkconfig haldaemon off; chkconfig haldaemon on'
"startup links" switch from S98haldaemon to S26haldaemon and anacron starts with S95.

I just looked at "# chkconfig: 345 26 74" line in /etc/init.d/haldaemon and got mislead by it.

How this is "fixed in rawhide"?  Just changing startup scripts does not make it so. Upgrades will bump into the same issue.

Comment 3 Marcela Mašláňová 2009-01-29 06:39:30 UTC

The error message was sent to /dev/null but anyway there will be changes which probably remove anacron "init" script at all.

Comment 4 Christopher Beland 2009-01-31 00:12:24 UTC

*** Bug 482979 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***