Avoid HAL on Ubuntu 10.04?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Sep 22 16:16:12 UTC 2010


On 09/22/2010 06:44 AM, Peter Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:28 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hal was removed from the startup process in Lucid:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/TechnicalOverview
>> but is still used for other applications. I can't recall the command to
>> check for existing applications that depend on hal, but I'd recommend
>> you keep it.
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal
>> http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-power-manager/hal.html
>> http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/FAQ
>>
>> What you see are 'Warnings' from gnome-power-manager:
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager
>>
>> I've yet to figure out the source/meanings of the warnings (I get them
>> as well on all of my machines) & have even purged and reinstalled
>> gnome-power-manager in attempt to resolve the problem. However, they are
>> 'Warnings', so ignore (or attempt to debug) them.
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGNOMEPowerManager
> 
> Maybe you are thinking of the "apt-cache rdepends" command.

Thats it thanks.

> 
> Do you get the precise same warnings as me? 

Yes:

** (gnome-power-manager:1489): WARNING **: Either HAL or DBUS are not
working!

** (gnome-power-manager:1489): WARNING **: proxy failed

** (gnome-power-manager:1489): WARNING **: failed to get Computer root
object

** (gnome-power-manager:1489): WARNING **: proxy NULL!!

I also get this:
(gnome-power-manager:1489): GLib-GObject-WARNING **:
/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.1/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal
`proxy-status' is invalid for instance `0x8dad8f0'

But was told by Chris Coulsen that "it's only a warning"
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/614248/>
(comments 13 & 14).

> I have also tried to
> install HAL on the test system, that removed the warning some time,
> but then suddenly it was back even though HAL still was installed.

$ apt-cache policy hal
hal:
  Installed: 0.5.14-0ubuntu6
  Candidate: 0.5.14-0ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.14-0ubuntu6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.5.14-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

> 
> I haven't found the last link before, i would try to read through that page now.
> 






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