Am Dienstag, den 12.09.2006, 09:15 -0400 schrieb Jim Wildman:

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Christian Bolz wrote:

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Hi, since the last few days my system crashs at startup of gdm (on system boot).

If I choose runlevel 2, the system doesn't crash. I found out, that HAL is the problem. After disabling hal (chkconfig haldaemon --off) no crashes appear.

The system freezes completly so I can't look into the logfiles.

I removed an reinstalled hal already, but nothing changed.

I tried older kernels releases and nothing changed.

Any help would be nice!

Details would help. What hardware? What kernel version? What gdm version? What hal version?

Dell Inspiron 6000, Centrino (Intel 2200 WLAN), 512 MB, 1.6 GHz, ATI X300 all packages are up to date - except kernel. Because of problems with VMware I'm using version 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL. hal = 0.4.2-4.EL4 gdm = 2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.12

Had you made any changes to the system prior to this starting?

I looked at yum.log - no changes since Sep 01. But the problem first appeared yesterday.

The only thing I changed yesterday was deactivating ntpd.

If I boot into runlevel 2 and use "startx" the system works fine. If I boot into runlevel 5 and disabled hal before, the system works fine, too.

Only if I active hal and boot into runlevel 5 the system hangs.

Regards, Christian

Am Dienstag, den 12.09.2006, 10:23 -0700 schrieb Email Lists:

-> Dell Inspiron 6000, Centrino (Intel 2200 WLAN), 512 MB, 1.6 GHz, ATI -> X300 -> all packages are up to date - except kernel. Because of problems with -> VMware I'm using version 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL. -> hal = 0.4.2-4.EL4 -> gdm = 2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.12 -> -> > -> > Had you made any changes to the system prior to this starting? -> I looked at yum.log - no changes since Sep 01. But the problem first -> appeared yesterday. -> -> The only thing I changed yesterday was deactivating ntpd. -> -> If I boot into runlevel 2 and use "startx" the system works fine. If I -> boot into runlevel 5 and disabled hal before, the system works fine, -> too. -> -> Only if I active hal and boot into runlevel 5 the system hangs. -> -> Regards, Christian

Welcome!

Ummmmmmmmm I don't use haldaemon nor do I currently remember what it is for.

Do you need to use it for some reason?

With hal usb-sticks and CDs will be mountet automatically.

Sure, I need it. Most of all, I wonder why it worked for years and now it stops working.

Does anybody else have some helpfull tipps?

Regards, Christian

Am Dienstag, den 12.09.2006, 08:16 -0700 schrieb Email Lists:

-> -> Hi, -> since the last few days my system crashs at startup of gdm (on system -> boot). -> -> If I choose runlevel 2, the system doesn't crash. I found out, that HAL -> is -> the problem. After disabling hal (chkconfig haldaemon --off) no crashes -> appear. -> -> The system freezes completly so I can't look into the logfiles. -> -> I removed an reinstalled hal already, but nothing changed. -> -> I tried older kernels releases and nothing changed. -> -> Any help would be nice! -> -> Regards, Christian ->

You may have a typo with the --off as I understand it

One proper way to look at it is

chkconfig --list | grep :on

will show you everything that is on for all runlevels

then you can

chkconfig haldaemon off

or if you want to turn all runlevels that are on, off then

chkconfig --level 2345 haldaemon off

this my help if you typo'd

thanks and kind regards

you're absolutly right! It was a typo in my message. ;-)

• rh

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