Because hal-addon-acpi starts before acpid, it intercepts some of the rules, and doesn't let acpid have control over the actions. Because hal-addon-acpi doesn't seem to be configurable - at least, not that I've been able to find - this pretty much renders acpid useless. As killing hal-addon-acpi and restarting acpid then hal-addon-acpi allows acpid to function correctly, I recommend changing the runlevel startup sequence so as to start acpid before haldaemon.
Hello, in the runlevel startup sequence acpid has to be executed before hald-addon-acpi. Otherwise acpid will not work. In F9 the sequence is right, at least at my PC it is correct and I didn't change any relevant cfg file.
Strange. Well, it's not as simple as the startup sequence then. Something is happening that is preventing acpid from processing events correctly. Something that is fixed when I kill hal-addon-acpi and restart acpid. Any ideas of where to look next?
The thing is, that if hal-addon-acpi starts first, then it'll grab /proc/acpi/event. After that, when acpid is started, it'll complain because it cannot grap /proc/acpi/event now. But if acpid is started first, then it'll open the UNIX socket. After that, when hal-addon-acpi starts, it'll detect that it cannot open /proc/acpi/event so it'll listen at acpid's socket and both applications works fine.
I understand. But the theoretical behaviour isn't working properly. For some reason, hal-addon-acpi is keeping acpid from processing the events properly. Or so I must assume, given that killing hal-addon-acpi and restarting acpid fixes the problem.
At the boot time, do you see something like this? ... Starting acpi daemon: [ OK ] Starting HAL daemon: [ OK ] ...
I just checked three times. All three boots had that message upon boot.
In this case acpid IS started before hal-addon-acpi. Could you send the output of: $ ps aux | grep -e acpid -e hal-addon-acpi
" 68 2205 0.0 0.0 12456 884 ? S 19:05 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket root 2434 0.0 0.0 3900 616 ? Ss 19:05 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid " Weird. That looks like hald-addon-acpi starts before acpid.
This says that acpid is started before hald-addon-acpi. From my point of view this is the correct behaviour. What exactly doesn't work?
The problem still exists if one wants to install and use acpid after haldaemon is already started, e.g. on a fresh install where acpid is missing. Then acpid will just fail unless one first stops haldaemon, starts acpid and then starts haldaemon again.
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