I installed sys-apps/hal-0.5.5.1-r3 and after that, I cannot run it. When I try to start it from /etc/init.d/hald, I'll see this message in /var/log/messages: Badness in kref_get at lib/kref.c:32 [<c02a4494>] kref_get+0x44/0x50 [<c02a39da>] kobject_get+0x1a/0x30 [<c019f51b>] sysfs_getlink+0x3b/0x130 [<c019f666>] sysfs_follow_link+0x56/0x60 [<c016e1c6>] generic_readlink+0x36/0xa0 [<c011de81>] current_fs_time+0x51/0x70 [<c0178715>] update_atime+0x95/0xb0 [<c01661e6>] sys_readlink+0x96/0xa0 [<c01032f5>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: c0143679 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#4] PREEMPT Modules linked in: nvidia ipv6 usblp ohci_hcd ehci_hcd analog ns558 gameport parport_pc parport floppy pcspkr via82cxxx_audio uart401 sound ac97_codec uhci_hcd i2c_viapro i2c_core 8139too 3c59x mii via_agp agpgart rtc usbcore CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c0143679>] Tainted: P VLI EFLAGS: 00010096 (2.6.14-nitro2) EIP is at kfree+0x39/0x70 eax: 00000000 ebx: eb1a0ba8 ecx: ffffffff edx: c1000000 esi: 00000000 edi: f2728d7c ebp: 00000282 esp: c8555e64 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process hald (pid: 29469, threadinfo=c8555000 task=d2533570) Stack: cbd15b80 d2533570 eb1a0ba8 f2762e04 f2728e00 f2728d7f c02a3a2e f2728d7c eb1a0bc0 c02a3a90 dff7a8ac eb1a0ba8 c02a44dd eb1a0ba8 c019f4cf dff7a8ac eb0a2000 c04b6200 00000000 c02a3abe eb1a0bc0 c02a3a90 c019f5ce eb1a0ba8 Call Trace: [<c02a3a2e>] kobject_cleanup+0x3e/0xa0 [<c02a3a90>] kobject_release+0x0/0x10 [<c02a44dd>] kref_put+0x3d/0xa0 [<c019f4cf>] sysfs_get_target_path+0x6f/0x80 [<c02a3abe>] kobject_put+0x1e/0x30 [<c02a3a90>] kobject_release+0x0/0x10 [<c019f5ce>] sysfs_getlink+0xee/0x130 [<c019f666>] sysfs_follow_link+0x56/0x60 [<c016e1c6>] generic_readlink+0x36/0xa0 [<c011de81>] current_fs_time+0x51/0x70 [<c0178715>] update_atime+0x95/0xb0 [<c01661e6>] sys_readlink+0x96/0xa0 [<c01032f5>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: 0c 8b 7c 24 1c 89 6c 24 14 85 ff 74 31 9c 5d fa 8b 15 50 f4 55 c0 8d 87 00 00 00 40 c1 e8 0c c1 e0 05 8b 74 02 18 e8 b7 53 16 00 <8b> 1c 86 8b 03 3b 43 04 73 1d 89 7c 83 10 40 89 03 55 9d 8b 5c emerge --info: Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-nitro2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-nitro2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre12 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -pipe -falign-functions=64 -ftracer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -pipe -falign-functions=64 -ftracer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="sk_SK" LINGUAS="en" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 ccache cdr crypt cups curl eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww lua mad mhash mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline recode ruby scanner sdl spell sqlite ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xv xvid zlib linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS Version of sys-apps/dbus is 0.60-r3.
We don't support nor distribute nitro-sources. Reopen if you are able to reproduce the issue with a supported kernel - http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml#doc_chap2
