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

From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:26:10 -0400
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 00:23 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 23:12 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >>
> >> Option 1: Comment out this line from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald
> >>       #start_cmd="hald_start"
> > 
> > This sounds right, but I have not validated the functionality of an
> > immediate start of hald on -CURRENT.  One problem we were seeing prior
> > to bland's work, and prior to the delay was that the keyboard and mouse
> > would lock up if CK was started before init spawned the ttys.  So beyond
> > making sure CK reports the correct active session, you would want to
> > make sure X is usable at all.
> 
> I'm using an immediate hald startup right now with
> the traditional KDM entry in /etc/ttys and everything
> seems just spiffy.  In particular, keyboard and mouse
> are quite happy.  (My only problem right now are some
> X shutdown issues which I believe to be unrelated.)
> 
> I'm not sure how to check "CK reports the correct
> active session", though.  Pointers?

I don't believe KDE is CK-aware, so tests would be meaningless.  The
command is ck-list-sessions, though.  If working, the current session
details should show up as being ACTIVE.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
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Received on Wed Apr 08 2009 - 05:26:07 UTC

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