2 Nov
2011
2 Nov
'11
5:05 p.m.
On 11/02/11 08:46, Laws, Peter C. wrote:
Glad to have been of assistance!
On a related note, this is one reason why we need to get rid of HAL as a
dependency. HAL is not the most stable of programs on newer hardware, and
the fact that it can take TDE down if it fails is a Very Bad Thing.
Tim
Update went OK with no errors seen. However,
since rebooting, I have
mouse control, the desktop clock is running, but I can do nothing. I'\
can read mail on my Mac, but I really need for this to be running.
Any ideas? I'm sshed in so can grab logs if needed (though I don't
really see anything glaring).
Help?
Thanks, big-time, to both Calvin M and Tim P for their assistance!
Turns out that hald got amnesia at least, if not a more serious brain
disease, and kept dying/respawning/quitting.
Tim's suggestion was to purge hal and his friends and start over, which
worked:
1. Use dpkg --purge --force-all to remove all hal related packages (i.e.
all packages with hal in their name; use dpkg -l | grep hal to find them)
That list on my system was:
hal
hal-info
hal-trinity
libhal-storage1
libhal1
2. apt-get update
3. apt-get -f install
4. Reboot
And voila, all is now functional!
I'm not sure all is well with hald, though, as I still don't see
thumbdrives getting mounted. But I can WORK, and that's a good thing.