When I start hal, I get the following error message: # hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes 13:21:49.249 [I] hald.c:533: hal 0.5.9 13:21:49.249 [I] hald.c:598: Will not daemonize 13:21:49.250 [I] hald_dbus.c:4807: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-5a0oH2nJ7v,guid=cea958b097cbbc8c28975700463b6bad 13:21:49.251 [I] hald_runner.c:299: Runner has pid 10656 13:21:49.252 [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 13:21:49.252 [E] hald_dbus.c:4462: Cannot get caller info for org.freedesktop.DBus Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/libexec:/usr/lib64/hal/scripts:/usr/bin' 13:21:49.252 [I] hald_runner.c:180: runner connection is 0x5545d0 13:21:49.253 [I] mmap_cache.c:251: cache mtime is 1178297891 Error binding udev_event socket: Address already in use I found a site in Russian that I was told said that the problem was fixed by rolling back to 0.5.7.1-r3, but that did not work All relevant information follows. [ebuild R ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.9-r1 USE="acpi crypt -debug -dell -disk-partition -doc -pcmcia (-selinux)" 0 kB [ebuild R ] sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2-r2 USE="X -debug -doc (-selinux)" 0 kB attachment with emerge --info
Created attachment 118163 [details] emerge --info
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 172830 ***