Description of problem: This is what started to show up in logs recently: hald[2595] general protection rip:37d0a75060 rsp:7fff178c5f28 error:0 Unfortunately no core file I can find. If you login after that then a deskop is quite unhappy and various alerts that things do not work show up. 'hald' indeed is dead. I got three of these recently. They are preceded directly with messages (the same datestamp) like those: .... gconfd (root-12296): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2 gconfd (root-12296): Exiting kernel: hald[2595] general protection .... ..... AFAICT in all cases this really meant a logout from a gnome-session. Two times it was after a bunch up updates was applied but other time I do not see anything special. OTOH this does not happen after every logout. "rip:37d0a75060 rsp:7ffffa1e1848 error:0" is the same on every occasion. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal-0.5.9-0.git20070218.fc7 How reproducible: See above.
yeah, there's an annoying segfault somewhere (seen it on x86 too) and I guess the x86_64 kernel just logs such things (the ia64 kernel prints even more crap). I'll try to hunt this down for the next git snapshot (which is in a couple of days...)
Can it be consolekit related? I've been experiencing similar issue when switching user using F-U-S-A.
Is this still happening with hal-0.5.9-0.git20070304.fc7? Thanks.
> Is this still happening with hal-0.5.9-0.git20070304.fc7? I did not see that so far but I did not have a recipe to recreate that at will. I intended to wait a bit ...
If previous patterns would be kept then hald should crash by now and the last one I have seen was immediately after an update (which will be still the previous version running). I guess that I will close that at this moment and if something bad will happen then will reopen.