Re: boot error

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 20:46:22 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:07:49 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > n Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 21:25:29 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > > For the past few weeks I've been seeing an error message fly by
> > > (doesn't seem to affect anything) and I curious what's going on.
> > >
> > > the message is:
> > >
> > > dbus unknown username "haldemon" in message bus configuration file.
> >
> > It should be "haldaemon". (I assume this is just a typo since you
> > probably could not copy/paste the message directly.) The relevant
> > configuration file is /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf:
> >
> > $ grep -A2 haldaemon /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf
> > <!-- Only root or user haldaemon can own the HAL service -->
> > <policy user="haldaemon">
> > <allow own="org.freedesktop.Hal"/>
> > </policy>
>
> I have no hal.conf in that directory ??

[...]

> > The post-installation script of the hal
> > package is supposed to create the haldaemon user and group if they do
> > not exist. You can check if the user exists:
> >
> > $ grep hal /etc/passwd
>
> and no hal or haldaemon user???

Then maybe you are not using the "hal" package at all. What is the output of "dpkg -l hal\*"?

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