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From: fred on 30 May 2010 11:20 Hello, Well I seem to have screwed up X. I have Slack 13.0. When I startx, (no matter which desktop) the mouse and keyboard lockup. When I kill the processes from a remote terminal, I'm left with messages that ask if Hal is running? I checked and it's not running. If I try to start it, I get - ----------------- pogo:/etc/rc.d# ./rc.hald restart Starting system message bus: /usr/bin/dbus-uuidgen --ensure ; /usr/bin/dbus-dae mon --system Unknown username "haldaemon" in message bus configuration file Failed to start message bus: Could not get UID and GID for username "messagebus" Starting HAL daemon: /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes --------------- After which there is still no process named hald running. What package(s) can I uninstall and then re-install? What can I restore from backup? Is there something simple? Thanks in advance, Fred
From: Grant on 30 May 2010 17:05 On Sun, 30 May 2010 10:20:23 -0500, fred(a)mongo.net wrote: >Hello, > > Well I seem to have screwed up X. I have Slack 13.0. When I startx, >(no matter which desktop) the mouse and keyboard lockup. When I kill the >processes from a remote terminal, I'm left with messages that ask if Hal >is running? I checked and it's not running. If I try to start it, I get - >----------------- >pogo:/etc/rc.d# ./rc.hald restart >Starting system message bus: /usr/bin/dbus-uuidgen --ensure ; /usr/bin/dbus-dae >mon --system >Unknown username "haldaemon" in message bus configuration file >Failed to start message bus: Could not get UID and GID for username "messagebus" > >Starting HAL daemon: /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes >--------------- > >After which there is still no process named hald running. > >What package(s) can I uninstall and then re-install? >What can I restore from backup? >Is there something simple? No need to uninstall, do a full reinstall with (if I recall correctly): upgradepkg --reinstall /home/mirror/slackware-13.0/slackware/*/*.t?z followed by the patches again: upgradepkg --reinstall /home/mirror/slackware-13.0/patches/packages/*.t?z Replace my '/home/mirror/' path with the location of your files. Then you need to look at the various *.conf.new (or is it some other suffix?) to see which ones should be used in place of existing .confs. Grant. -- http://bugs.id.au/
From: Steve Masta on 30 May 2010 20:48 fred(a)mongo.net wrote: > Hello, > > Well I seem to have screwed up X. I have Slack 13.0. When I startx, > (no matter which desktop) the mouse and keyboard lockup. When I kill the > processes from a remote terminal, I'm left with messages that ask if Hal > is running? I checked and it's not running. If I try to start it, I get - > ----------------- > pogo:/etc/rc.d# ./rc.hald restart > Starting system message bus: /usr/bin/dbus-uuidgen --ensure ; /usr/bin/dbus-dae > mon --system > Unknown username "haldaemon" in message bus configuration file > Failed to start message bus: Could not get UID and GID for username "messagebus" > > Starting HAL daemon: /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes > --------------- > > After which there is still no process named hald running. > > What package(s) can I uninstall and then re-install? > What can I restore from backup? > Is there something simple? The users haldaemon and messagebus are part of the slackware/a/etc-13.0-i486-2.txz package. If that got borked you may be better off with a full reinstall as Grant suggested. Steve
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