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Daemons don't start at boot time.
  • XavierJXavierJ August 2010
    Hello,

    I'm afraid I'm going to need your help again.

    When I boot my slitaz (base distro with some added packages), the process stop at "Starting Hardware Abstration Layer: HAL..."
    Then I can do a ctrl-c to stop the current execution and I get the login prompt.

    I tried to not start hald during boot and that fixed the problem.

    So I have 2 questions :
    Is there a mean to have more messages at boot time to debug it ?
    What's the purpose of HAL ?

    Xavier
  • kultexkultex August 2010
    there are others, who did the same like you:

    "As of 2009, distributions such as Ubuntu,[4] Debian,[5] and Fedora,[6] and projects such as GNOME and X.org are in the process of deprecating HAL as it has "become a large monolithic unmaintainable mess".[4] It is in the process of being merged into udev "

    see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_%28software%29

  • XavierJXavierJ August 2010
    Thank you kultex.

    So can I assume that slitaz will work fine without HAL ?
    So far it went good.
  • Trixar_zaTrixar_za August 2010
    I'm with kultex - HAL seems to make more of a mess of things than it fixes. My one DVD device won't mount with HAL, but mounts fine with the mount command. HAL doesn't see empty, writeable CD's when I insert them into the writer - it also doesn't detect the writer properly either.
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