apt-get dist-upgrade, and X issues

[Florian Diesch]

stan <stanb at panix.com> writes:

> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 06:09:02AM +0100, Florian Diesch wrote:
>> stan <stanb at panix.com> writes:
>> 
>> > (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
>> > (II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
>> > (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
>> > 	If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AllowEmptyInput.
>> 
>> 
>> What does
>>   hal-find-by-capability --capability input|xargs -i lshal -u '{}'
>> print?
>> 
> Could not initialise connection to hald.
> Normally this means the HAL daemon (hald) is not running or not ready.
>
> And
>
> root at boo-boo:/var/log# ps -ef | grep hal
> root     18265  7923  0 08:15 pts/0    00:00:00 grep hal
>
> OBut if I do a "start hal", then I get Lot's of capabilty, and now the
> mouse an keyboard work in my currently runnig X session. Remeber that I
> manualy started kdm, after it did not come up when booted,

How does /etc/init/hal.conf look? What does
  status dbus
  status udev
  status hal 
print after booting?


> So, the issue appears to be the startup of hal. Whe did the startup
> methodolgy chage from /etc/init.d scripts to, whatever it is know, and BTW
> what the heck is it now, and why in the word make Ubuntu different than
> other mainstream *NIX'es?

Ubuntu replaced SysV init with upstart <http://upstart.ubuntu.com/> for
better speed and flexibility. For example upstart can start/stop
programs on different events, not just runlevel changes.


   Florian
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