[CentOS] problem starting X11 on centos 6

[Jerry Geis]

Jerry Geis wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I had an issue. Manually installing Centos 6 everything worked X11 
> came up with nvidia binary drivers. Cool.
> However, I am working on a kickstart install for Centos 6 and that was 
> not working. When I started X it
> would hang. no mouse no keyboard. however , remote ssh was available 
> and worked.
>
> Thinking I had some serious bug in nvidia binary was my thought - but 
> I kept looking.
> I saw this error:
>
> (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null)
>
> in the X log file.
>
> I continued to look and sure enough hald was installed but not running.
> I did service  haldaemon stop and it said FAILED as expected, then 
> service haldaemon start
> and it started up. Curious....
>
> chkconfig --list | grep hal reports
> haldaemon       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
>
> So thats the reason of course, it was not set to start. Question is 
> why????
>
> certainly I can put in my kickstart post script to change chkconfig
> but why is it not set to start????
>
> Thanks for any insite.
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
After further investigating... I found the issue. I was in fact turning 
off haldaemon.
Some obscure install script I forgot about.
This must have been ok in centos 5 and X as I just checked my machines 
and in fact it is off.
Not sure why I turned it off way back...

Thanks,

Jerry