Bugzilla Bug 176380

I just updated to hal-0.5.9-r1 [crypt disk-partition (-acpi) -debug (-dell)
-doc (-pcmcia) (-selinux)], but it won't start:

$ hald --use-syslog --daemon no
Runner started - allowed paths are
'/usr/libexec:/usr/lib64/hal/scripts:/usr/bin'
*** [DIE] device_info.c:rules_match_and_merge_device():962 : Rule is NULL on
jump
$ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.2
(default-linux/ppc/ppc64/2007.0/64bit-userland/desktop/970/pmac, gcc-4.1.1,
glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.20-gentoo-r5 ppc64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r5 ppc64 PPC970FX, altivec supported
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:00:08 +0000
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.15-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mtune=970 -mcpu=970 -mabi=altivec"
CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mtune=970 -mcpu=970 -mabi=altivec"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig collision-protect cvs distlocks
metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/
http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="7zip X a52 aac acl aiglx alsa altivec amr apache2 asf avahi
bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo ccache cdinstall cdparanoia cdr
cli cracklib crypt cups curl cvs dbus disk-partition dri dts dv dvd dvdr
dvdread emboss enca encode exif exscalibar fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb
fortran fping gcj gd gdbm ggi gif gimp gimpprint glib glitz gmp gnokii gnutls
gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk hal hfs highlight iconv ieee1394
imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jingle jpeg kdeenablefinal latex ldap
libg++ libnotify mad matroska mdnsresponder-compat midi mikmod mjpeg mp3 mp4
mpeg mplayer multiuser musicbrainz mysql ncurses network nls no-old-linux nptl
nptlonly nsplugin objc objc++ offensive ogg openal opengl pam pcre pdf perl php
plotutils plugins png ppc64 ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime
rdesktop readline reflection rtsp ruby samba scanner screen sdl session skins
slp smp spell spl ssl startup-notification stream subtitles subversion svg
tcltk tcpd teamarena tetex theora threads tiff trayicon truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts unicode upnp usb utempter vcd videos vim-pager vorbis wxwindows
x264 xcb xcomposite xine xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses
text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Confirmed, exact same problem here.

Portage 2.1.2.5
(default-linux/ppc/ppc64/2007.0/64bit-userland/desktop/970/pmac, gcc-4.1.2,
glibc-2.5-r1, 2.6.21-rc7-g80d74d51-dirty ppc64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.21-rc7-g80d74d51-dirty ppc64 PPC970FX, altivec supported
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10
Timestamp of tree: Unknown
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.23b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.20-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64 ~ppc64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mtune=G5 -mcpu=G5 -mabi=altivec -maltivec"
CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mtune=G5 -mcpu=G5 -mabi=altivec -maltivec"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig cvs distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms
sign"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.virginmedia.com"
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/cvs/gentoo-x86/"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://localhost/disabled"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acl adns adplug alsa altivec amr aotuv audacious avahi
bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr
cdrom cli cracklib crypt cups dbus djvu dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvi ecc eds emboss
enca encode epiphany erandom evolution exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac
fortran ftp gcc64 gdbm gif glitz gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal iconv
idle ipv6 jpeg keyring libcaca libg++ libnotify libsamplerate libsexy lzo
m17n-lib mad midi mikmod modplug mozbranding mp2 mp3 mp3rtp mpeg mplayer
mudflap musepack ncurses nls no-old-linux nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl
openssl pam pcre pdf perl pic plugins pmu png pnm ppc64 pppd pulseaudio python
qt3support quicktime readline reflection rtc scenarios sdl session sid speex
spell spl srt ssl startup-notification svg theora thunar-vfs tiff timidity
trayicon truetype truetype-fonts tta type1-fonts unicode urandom usb vorbis
vorbis-psy wavpack wma wmf xcb xcomposite xml xorg xv xvid zlib"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse"
KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001
mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon r300"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Created an attachment (id=117603) [details]
hald.explosion.txt

The result of:
jupiter ~ # udevstart && udevtrigger && /etc/init.d/dbus restart && hald
--daemon=no --verbose=yes &> hald.explosion.txt

Another error with this version (hal-0.5.7-r1 works fine):

[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.9-r1  USE="acpi crypt dell disk-partition
-debug -doc -pcmcia (-selinux)" 0 kB

# hald --daemon=no
Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/libexec:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin'
*** [DIE] osspec.c:watch_fdi_files():349 : Unable to initialize inotify:
Function not implemented

emerge --info

Portage 2.1.2.5 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.21-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2080 @ 1.73GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 05 May 2007 03:30:01 +0000
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=prescott -pipe -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer
-momit-leaf-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=prescott -pipe -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer
-momit-leaf-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/var/tmp/distfiles"
FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox
sfperms splitdebug strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/var/lib/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/pclouds/overlay"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa avahi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cjk cli
cracklib crypt cups dbus dri eds emacs fortran gdbm gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal
iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg libg++ libnotify mad midi ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg
opengl pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python readline reflection session spl sse2
ssl tcpd theora truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis x86 xorg xv
zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci
emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0
intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics"
KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001
mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 fbdev vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

corsair & chainsaw: Some application you have has installed fdi files that are
completely incorrect. Check /usr/share/hal/fdi and /etc/hal/fdi for files that
weren't installed by HAL and that's your culprit. File a bug against that
application and CC gentopia. Most likely your issue is with gphoto. Their app
to create HAL fdi files with their new 2.3.x series has generated a proper file
on 1 out of about 10 computers that I've seen it tested on.

pcclouds: You've upgraded your linux-headers without recompiling glibc as
required and mentioend in the via ewarn/elog in linux-headers. There is an
ewarn about this by the HAL ebuild, however not an eerror as releng says we
can't make it a fatal error.

jakub: I'm CC'ing you since these are the two most common errors that will be
seen with HAL

(In reply to comment #4)
> corsair & chainsaw: Some application you have has installed fdi files that are
> completely incorrect. Check /usr/share/hal/fdi and /etc/hal/fdi for files that
> weren't installed by HAL and that's your culprit.

I'm sorry to report that it is not that simple. The contents of /etc/hal/fdi:
./information
./information/.keep_sys-apps_hal-0
./preprobe
./preprobe/.keep_sys-apps_hal-0
./policy
./policy/.keep_sys-apps_hal-0

I cleared out the contents of /usr/share/hal completely, then emerged hal
0.5.9-r1 and made sure to remerge hal-info. I started HAL again:
15:53:12.156 [I] osspec.c:752: Synthesizing powermgmt events...
15:53:12.156 [I] pmu.c:312: Processing /proc/pmu/info
15:53:12.156 [I] osspec.c:756: PMU capabilities found
15:53:12.156 [I] osspec.c:762: Done synthesizing events
*** [DIE] device_info.c:rules_match_and_merge_device():962 : Rule is NULL on
jump

To confirm, this is how I obtained that dump:
udevstart && udevtrigger && /etc/init.d/dbus restart && hald --daemon=no
--verbose=yes &> ~/hald.explosion.txt

This version of HAL requires a patch given to me by compnerd to even start on
PPC64, and when it does, my machine is accused of having components that it
most certainly does not have:
chainsaw@jupiter /cvs/gentoo-x86 $ lshal | grep "^udi =" | grep switch
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/dell_bluetooth_switch'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/dell_wlan_switch'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/sonypic_bluetooth_switch'

Nearly all udi nodes are on temporary addresses:
chainsaw@jupiter /cvs/gentoo-x86 $ lshal | grep "^udi =" | grep temp | wc -l
23

Created an attachment (id=118457) [details]
98_compnerd_verbosity.patch

The verbose debugging path that compnerd gave me. It also contains a fix that
allows HALd to start (but it goes completely berserk). I will attach the output
from a HALd run in a moment.

See the URL field for the log output, a brief run of HALd, where it seems that
the pmu_info_1 device gets incorrect helpers attached to it. Note that the
resulting device list looks very wrong:
chainsaw@jupiter /etc/hal/fdi $ lshal | grep "^udi ="
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/dell_bluetooth_switch'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/dell_wlan_switch'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/sonypic_bluetooth_switch'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pmu_info_1'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/26'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/25'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/24'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/23'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/22'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/21'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/20'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/19'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/18'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/17'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/16'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/15'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/14'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/13'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/12'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/11'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/10'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/9'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/8'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/7'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/6'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/5'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/4'

Created an attachment (id=118459) [details]
kernel.config

Dropped keywords until this can be worked out. We are aware of the Gnome 2.18
dependency and hope that a workable solution can be reached before 2.18 is due
for unmaskingg.

All that patch does is uncomment a few debugging statements. There is no
functional code difference. If your system requires that patch to have HAL
run.. there's something very wrong happening there... a printf() statement
should not result in a program running.

I actually do see a code change in there, and it's incorrect. Which is probably
why you're having completely erratic results.

(In reply to comment #4)
> corsair & chainsaw: Some application you have has installed fdi files that are
> completely incorrect. Check /usr/share/hal/fdi and /etc/hal/fdi for files that
> weren't installed by HAL and that's your culprit. File a bug against that
> application and CC gentopia. Most likely your issue is with gphoto. Their app
> to create HAL fdi files with their new 2.3.x series has generated a proper file
> on 1 out of about 10 computers that I've seen it tested on.
> 

Okay, libgphoto2's fdi file was my problem. Hald starts fine now that I have
removed it.  Thanks for your help.

Tony: Please post a full lshal output.

(In reply to comment #13)
> Tony: Please post a full lshal output.

From 0.5.7.1 or from 0.5.9-r1 with the "completely wrong" code that allows it
to start?

Created an attachment (id=118506) [details]
lshal.txt

This is the lshal output on 0.5.9-r1 with the patch applied.

(In reply to comment #12)
> Okay, libgphoto2's fdi file was my problem. Hald starts fine now that I have
> removed it.  Thanks for your help.
Removing /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-camera-libgphoto2.fdi
fixed it. Thanks.

this is blocking gnome 2.18 on ppc64. should we open an upstream bug report to
get this fixed?

raising severity to major.

This bug has become a hodgepodge of various issues now.. But the the issue I
believe you're referring to will probably get ignored by David and he'll
probably expect me to work something up to fix it. But you're welcome to open
the bug upstream with him. He didn't seem too interested in the sparc issue,
which is why I'm assuming this.

I've cleared my /usr/share/hal directory and re-installed hal and hal-info, and
I've recompiled glibc, but my hal also still won't start.

# lshal
Could not initialise connection to hald.
Normally this means the HAL daemon (hald) is not running or not ready.

# hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
00:33:12.176 [I] hald.c:533: hal 0.5.9
00:33:12.176 [I] hald.c:598: Will not daemonize
00:33:12.176 [I] hald_dbus.c:4807: local server is listening at
unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-bB5aUL6fAr,guid=19a59f9de8182405ccdb1900465e7a38
Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/libexec:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin'
00:33:12.180 [I] hald_runner.c:299: Runner has pid 16947
00:33:12.181 [W] ci-tracker.c:200: Could not get uid for connection:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner Could not get UID of name
'org.freedesktop.DBus': no such name
00:33:12.181 [E] hald_dbus.c:4462: Cannot get caller info for
org.freedesktop.DBus
00:33:12.181 [I] hald_runner.c:180: runner connection is 0x8095870
00:33:12.184 [I] mmap_cache.c:251: cache mtime is 1180592403
*** [DIE] osspec.c:watch_fdi_files():349 : Unable to initialize inotify:
Function not implemented

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3,
2.6.20-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 29 May 2007 08:50:01 +0000
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.23b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild
/etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
ftp://gentoo.llarian.net/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi aim alsa arts bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts
cairo cdr cli compositor cracklib crypt css cups dbus directfb divx4linux
dlloader dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox
font-server fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk2 hal hbci iconv ieee1394
isdnlog jack java jikes joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kerberos ldap
libg++ lm_sensors mad mbrola midi mikmod mmx mmxext mozilla mp3 mpeg mudflap
mysql ncurses neXt nfs nis nls nocd nptl nptlonly offensive ofx ogg opengl
openmp pam pcre pdf perl png posix ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4
quicktime rar readline real reflection rtc scanner sdl session slang speex
spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg svga sysfs tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 videos vorbis win32codecs x86
xcomposite xine xml xorg xv xvid yahoo zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp
atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968
fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx
via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop
empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi
null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard
mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216
lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv
nvidia v4l vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

# equery uses hal
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[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend : Left column  (U) - USE flags from make.conf              ]
[        : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
[ Found these USE variables for sys-apps/hal-0.5.9-r1 ]
 U I
 + + acpi           : Adds support for Advanced Configuration and Power
Interface
 + + crypt          : Add support for encryption -- using mcrypt or gpg where
applicable
 - - debug          : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra
output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml .
 - - dell           : Adds support for Dell laptop smbios via libsmbios
 - - disk-partition : Add support for partition editing via libparted
 - - doc            : Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc)
 - - kernel_FreeBSD : <unknown>
 + + kernel_linux   : <unknown>
 - - pcmcia         : Adds support for PCMCIA slots/devices found on laptop
computers
 - - selinux        : !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support,
this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur

(In reply to comment #19)
> *** [DIE] osspec.c:watch_fdi_files():349 : Unable to initialize inotify:
> Function not implemented

this doesn't seem to be related, but try to enable this in your kernel:

File systems  --->
  [*] Inotify file change notification support
  [*]   Inotify support for userspace

I fixed my inotify problem by enabling it in the kernel: both inotify and
userspace inotify support in the Filesystems section of the kernel
configuration.

Unable to initialize inotify: Function not implemented

Message only occurs in two situations:

1) when you have newer linux-headers which define the function and do not have
a glibc compiled which matches those linux-headers to provide the function.
2) when the kernel does not have support for inotify compiled in we handle this
through a compile time warning which pauses for 5 seconds and beeps the
console. We can not make this a full stop because HAL is included on the
LiveCD.

   ewarn "You must enable the Inotify system in your kernel."
    ewarn "For this you need to enable 'Inotify support for userspace'"
    ewarn "in 'File systems'. It is marked CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER in the config
file."
    ewarn
    ebeep 5

It's up to you the user to read the output of these ebuilds and follow the
instructions. We have implemeneted Portage elogging as such for this. Please
read /etc/make.defaults to configure this properly for your system.

chainsaw: did you ever open that bug upstream? If you do can you CC me on it.

We now have a problem with the newer hal and recent unmasking of gnome-2.18. 
Would it be appropriate to start a seperate bug entry to track that?

Has anyone tried 0.5.10 and especially hal-0.5.11_rc2 from gentopia:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gentopia.git;a=tree;f=sys-apps/hal;hb=HEAD

same error

i just stumbled on this on my i686 system and seemingly had everything correct,
kernel had all INOTIFY-s, etc. Doug G.-s comment relating the problem to glibc
was dead on for me. i had the chance to compare on two machines, my binhost was
working fine with hald but the to-be-client wasnt. the client indeed had an
older glibc (2.4 vs 2.5 on the binhost) and most likely i had upgraded the
kernel after glibc. moving the glibcs to equal status resolved the problem on
the client and both hald's are working well now.

we'll see what problem pops up next :P

Created an attachment (id=165302) [details]
backtrace just before hald exits

trying to debug this now. though I'm not getting far..

Created an attachment (id=165304) [details]
jump_positons

the problem is that jump_position is NULL. EVERY jump_position is NULL... Maybe
a type error?

some notes while debugging:

while running hal/hald/hald-generate-fdi-cache --verbose (while running make
check)

18:12:20.655 [I] create_cache.c:630: Loading rules
18:12:20.656 [I] create_cache.c:223: Storing key 'info.udi' at rule=00000018
18:12:20.656 [I] create_cache.c:264: Storing value
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer', value_len=37, at rule=00000018, o
ffset=00000054
18:12:20.656 [I] create_cache.c:284: rule=00000018, rule_size=104, rtype=1
18:12:20.656 [I] create_cache.c:286:   jump_position=00000000
18:12:20.656 [I] create_cache.c:289:   key_len=9, key_offset=00000048
18:12:20.656 [I] create_cache.c:292:   value_len=38, value_offset=00000054
18:12:20.656 [I] create_cache.c:223: Storing key 'info.addons' at rule=00000080
18:12:20.657 [I] create_cache.c:264: Storing value 'hald-addon-cpufreq',
value_len=18, at rule=00000080, offset=000000bc
18:12:20.657 [I] create_cache.c:284: rule=00000080, rule_size=80, rtype=3
18:12:20.657 [I] create_cache.c:286:   jump_position=00000000
18:12:20.657 [I] create_cache.c:289:   key_len=12, key_offset=000000b0
18:12:20.657 [I] create_cache.c:292:   value_len=19, value_offset=000000bc
18:12:20.657 [I] create_cache.c:320: modify rule=0x00000018, set jump to
0x000000d0


note that jump is not zero. this should mean that set_jump_position() is ok.

now while running hald-cache-test (also while running make check):

18:12:20.660 [I] create_cache.c:223: Storing key
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name' at rule=00000970
18:12:20.660 [I] create_cache.c:264: Storing value 'Linux', value_len=5, at
rule=00000970, offset=000009dc
18:12:20.660 [I] create_cache.c:284: rule=00000970, rule_size=120, rtype=1
18:12:20.660 [I] create_cache.c:286:   jump_position=00000000
18:12:20.660 [I] create_cache.c:289:   key_len=57, key_offset=000009a0
18:12:20.660 [I] create_cache.c:292:   value_len=6, value_offset=000009dc

jump_position is zero... the error is in pad32_write()?

another note:

in hal/hald/create_cache.c in function set_jump_position() the type off_t is
used for an offset. only 32bit are stored as rule.jump_position is only 32bit
wide. pad32_write gets sizeof(fdi_ctx->rule.jump_position) as argument for
length of data to be written.

converting the offset to u_int32_t seems to get things better, but not
functional.

more to come...

Created an attachment (id=166572) [details]
proposed patch

this seems to fix the issue. hal starts now. although I cannot test any plug in
devices and such, because the machine is 100km away...

Created an attachment (id=166573) [details]
the patch

fix formating... upstream used tabs not spaces.

the patch has been accepted upstream. please include it in the next patchset
for 0.5.11.

pleeeaaase apply the patch :-)

ok.. I'm sick of waiting. this holds back quite a few bugs. I'll give you
another 6 hours, then I'll add the patch myself. As I don't have access to the
patch tarball this will get ugly. :-(

Fixed in CVS.