On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Peter Laws wrote:
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:
- 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
- apt-get update
- apt-get -f install
- Reboot
And, thanks to you, too!
After a recent 'normal' 10.04 LS update/upgrade, my `hald` was seg-faulting on this netbook (Trinity 3.5.11). I could not mount SD cards, nor was kpowersave functioning.
I did the steps laid out above and VIOLA!, I'm good again. (Here, hal-kde3 was involved, too.)
Again, Thank you. Jonesy