Hal and KDM breakage (was Re: KDE4 and input events stalled)

Robert Noland wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 21:18 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>>>>>   * If I start kdm from /etc/ttys, I get a blank
>>>>>>     screen on startup.  If I start it from a root
>>>>>>     login, it works okay for the first login.
>>>>> This sounds more like it is waiting on hal/dbus to start up than
>>>>> anything.

Yep, that seems to be the issue.  I got
it to work finally by commenting out this
one line from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald:

#start_cmd="hald_start"

In particular, this allows hald to startup
in the regular sequence without that
odd delay.

Tim

CCing marcus_at_; maybe he can explain why that delay
was put in and whether ripping it back out makes sense.