[Bug 11435] hald searches cd-rom when gnome starts; desktop fails to display

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------- Additional Comments From martin.pitt at ubuntu.com  2005-06-15 15:37 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #0)

> the problem he is experiencing is twofold: for one thing his
hal-device-manager _always_ complains that 
> hald is not running - when it clearly is.

So "lshal" produces output instead of throwing an error message? What does

 ps aux|grep hald

show? Please do "lshal > lshal.txt" and attach the resulting lshal.txt here.

> i've found reference to that in bugs no. 1727 and 1891, but 
> both are about usb devices. the other problem is that occasionally when gnome
starts up, nothing is being 
> displayed. i haven't seen this phenomenon, so i assume that by 'nothing' he
means the panel is missing 
> and apparently - from his reactions - the splash screen does not show. this
happens sometimes, but not 
> always, when the cd drive is empty - if there is a cd in the drive it has
never happened.
> 
> here's the fascinating part: his keyboard macros etc. still work, so he can
open gnome-terminal windows, 
> etc. (another hint to me that it's just the panel that doesn't show). but as
soon as he changes into a 
> mounted volume (he mounts other volumes in his home directory) in he terminal,
gnome-panel appears. this 
> last part is reproducible.

This could very well be a hanging hal.
 
> i'll do my best bugging him to produce answers to specific questions (version
numbers, output from things 
> to run) if you post them here. since he lives a few hundred miles from here,
it's difficult for me to 
> diagnose stuff.

It would be really nice if you or your friend could login into a text console
(or you start it over ssh in a root shel) and start hald in debugging mode, as
described on

  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DebuggingRemovableDevices

It would be interesting to see whether there is any output that corresponds to
the "gnome panel appears" event.

  

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