On Wednesday 06 of August 2014 00:29:13 aw30@sayne.org wrote:

I get a lot of boot messages of the form: udevd[1465]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event' 'socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event': No such file or directory

The standard fix from https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/01/msg00857.html

is Remove the hal package and you should be fine.

HOWEVER:

apt-get remove hal

gives: The following packages will be REMOVED: hal hal-trinity kdebase-runtime-data-common-trinity kdebase-trinity ksmserver-trinity

And I think ksmserver-trinity is required ( I use xinit /opt/trinity/bin/startkde to start Trinity )

So does Trinity actually use HAL, or can I just get rid of it?

cheers

ant

If you use current stable branch - v3.5.13.x, then yes, hal is required. Upcoming version R14 is not dependent on hal.