Bug 133060

Summary:	x11-apps/xinit: KDE not handling hal-events if user logs in too fast
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) <dev-zero>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	matrixhax0r
Priority:	Low
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-11 14:23:57 UTC

In recent xinit (x11-apps/xinit-1.0.2-r3), the dependencies have changed to make xdm start up sooner. 
The problem is now that if the user logs in (using KDE) before hal is started, KDE will not handle device-events at all.

Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-11 16:58:57 UTC

Fixed by adding hald to the 'use' line in the init script. Thanks!

Comment 2 David Li 2006-05-13 09:07:16 UTC

This still doesn't work. Hald needs dbus. Dbus needs nscd/dns. These have to wait until the network is initialized.

Currently when hald tries to start, it fails. I think having hald failing to start and not comming up at all is worse than having it load late.

Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-13 13:05:56 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> This still doesn't work. Hald needs dbus. Dbus needs nscd/dns. These have to
> wait until the network is initialized.
> 
> Currently when hald tries to start, it fails. I think having hald failing to
> start and not comming up at all is worse than having it load late.

If the hald/dbus init script's dependencies aren't correct or aren't being started correctly, that ought to be either a problem of hal/dbus or baselayout, not xinit. After a quick glance I see that hald has a 'need dbus', correctly, but dbus has no deps on anything. Perhaps you should file a new bug for that.