Bug 578995

Summary:	hal fail to start on boot, haldaemon restart required
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	andrea florio <andrea>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Danny Al-Gaaf <dalgaaf>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Factory
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Screenshot of boot sequence where boot freezes. messages log

Description andrea florio 2010-02-11 08:44:57 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091222 SUSE/3.5.7-1.1.1 Firefox/3.5.7

i'm running openSUSE M1 with LXDE... i noticed that it wasn't able to mount media and shutdown/reboot properly..

i almost immediatly excluded lxde components itsealf simply because they simply worked before on 11.2 and earlier (same package version)

i then complained about lxdm, but it's not the problem since other login managers produce same problem...

at the end i discover the problem IS hal itsealf... is "enought" to manually restart haldaemon service to make everything working again..

actually i don't know if the problem is on initi scripts or something else...

yast2 runlevel show me hal service running but it's not working.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
install lxde and login into lxde session

Comment 1 andrea florio 2010-02-11 09:08:45 UTC

/usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes output is here:

http://pastebin.com/mc9abc48

Comment 2 andrea florio 2010-02-19 21:13:10 UTC

on Milestone1 it's ALWAYS reproducible, on Milestone2 it's not always happen, but still happen quite frequently

Comment 3 Danny Al-Gaaf 2010-02-22 15:21:46 UTC

Please follow: http://en.opensuse.org/HAL#HAL_crashes_or_hangs and change /etc/init.d/haldaemon 

Please provide a log from a case where HAL wasn't starting correctly at boot time.

Comment 4 Richard Watt 2010-02-23 18:15:40 UTC

Created attachment 344168 [details]
Screenshot of boot sequence where boot freezes.

Please note the highlighted entry "Loading CPUFreq modules (CPUFreq not supported)" then after that "Loading Haldaemon ...Done". The boot sequence stops dead at this point. If you need logs please let me know how I can create them.

Regards,
Richard

Comment 5 andrea florio 2010-03-02 15:15:55 UTC

sorry for late.. i was into hospital.. nothing particular bad.. i'll provides needed infos in the short time.

Comment 6 andrea florio 2010-03-02 19:19:23 UTC

Created attachment 346088 [details]
messages log

attached requested log

Comment 7 andrea florio 2010-03-26 10:58:19 UTC

can't reproduce it on a clean Milestone 4 installation