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
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.
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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....
<snip> There seem to be a number of problems with X: I *finally* solved mine yesterday, of being forced to use one (very small) font with rxvt, when I found that installing X did *not* install xorg-x11-fonts.
However, I find it very disturbing that haldaemon isn't on by default. I haven't noticed this - has anyone else?
mark
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
Jerry Geis wrote:
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...
Read wikipedia page on HAL daemon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_%28software%29
Maybe this helps you remember. You might have turned it of if you haven't needed it for anything, but used udev directly instead.
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