Description of problem: hal fails to start Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): f8t1 How reproducible: seemingly easily (tried 2-3 times) Steps to Reproduce: 1. qemu -boot d -m 384 -cdrom Fedora-8-Test-1-Live-i686.iso -net none 2. 3. Actual results: hal fails to start Expected results: haldaemon should succeed to start Additional info: will attach qemu screenshot of hal --deamon=no --verbose=yes
Created attachment 161817 [details] qemu screencap of hal failure ignore the Clocksource quirk from qemu. will post a 2nd screen cap from shft-pgup
Created attachment 161818 [details] more qemu screencap - shft-pgup-d some more data from the hal --daemon=no --verbose=yes
so the nearly obvious thing of mv /var/cache/hald/fdi-cache~ /var/cache/hald/fdi-cache service haldaemon start seems to work. I've also noticed this problem on a livecd spun with f7+updates question #1) does the above really solve the problem, or is it possibly introducing bad side-effects question #2) what is the 'right' fix for this question #3) what is the best immediate workaround fix for this while waiting for a #2 to percolate down from upstream?
Hal starts, since I downloaded a new version. The shell command rpm -qa | grep hal gives the following result: hal-0.5.10-0.git20070831.fc8 hal-info-20070725-1.fc8 hal-cups-utils-0.6.12-3.fc8 hal-libs-0.5.10-0.git20070831.fc8 So, the status for me now is Worksforme.
Peter- This was on a livecd? And you confirmed the same issue prior to downloading the new version. I'll give it a shot when I get the f8t2 livecd.
No, this was on a clean install of f8t1, because I was unable to upgrade f7. I don't remember seeing the issue prior to f8t1, but I never notices if Hal was present or not.
Starts and runs OK in fc8t2. I presume it will also work for you, Jane.
nope, still broke. same exact thing with f8t2-i686 livecd under qemu with the following command line qemu -net none -boot d -m 384 -no-kqemu -cdrom Fedora-7.91-Live-i686.iso Can someone else try out that command line and confirm or contradict the bug?
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