hald keeps dying?

[Michel Salim]

2007/2/24, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com>:
> On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 11:31 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 00:14 -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
> > > Recently I've been having to restart haldaemon periodically (to get
> > > battery status from gnome-power-manager back), and after a few minutes
> > > 'service haldaemon status' will report that hald is stopped.
> > >
> > > Nothing about hald shows up in /var/log/messages, and setroubleshooter
> > > is quiet. There's this bug in Bugzilla, but it's probably a different
> > > problem:
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229580
> > >
> > > Has anyone noticed something similar?
> >
> > Yes, seen this (but a lot less often) on x86 too. Is working on a fix.
> >
>
> What i noticed is that /sbin/service haldaemon status reports
> "stopped" when run as a user, but "running", when running as root, so
> there is probably some permission problem somewhere.
>
Ah, you're right. I was a bit puzzled about that -- sometimes hald is
really dead (no g-p-m icon in notification area), more often it's
actually still running.


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