Hmmm, it's quite interesting though that you have two users: messagebus and dbus. On my other installations (11.3 and 11.4) where hal is running correctly I have only messagebus as user. However, I will try that out later. One thing that I am confused about: you say that you used yast to change the runlevels where the haldaemon is started. However, my runlevel editor in yast shows only "B" as a runlevel option (all others, e.g., 2,3,5 are not shown). This is a common issue with openSUSE 12.3 and it is due to the switch from sysv to systemd: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/pre-release-beta/... Could it be that it worked for you because it was an early download of openSUSE 12.3? In any case, if yast does not work you should use: systemctl enable haldeamon.service (to activate it at bootup) systemctl start haldeamon.service (to start it right away without reboot) In the future, hopefully, the runlevel editor of yast will be replaced with a systemd compatible GUI. Gianluca On Thu, 21 Nov 2013, Chika wrote:
On 21/11/2013 00:20, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
Hi Chika,
I went through your journal and found under "openSUSE 12.3 - Slight second thoughts":
Oh, and for the record, the user for dbus should have read:
useradd -c 'System message bus' -u 81 -g dbus dbus; usermod -s /bin/false dbus; usermod -d '/' dbus
My dbus service is running but I do not have a dbus user. What do you get when you type
grep dbus /etc/passwd; grep dbus /etc/group
messagebus:x:101:101:User for D-Bus:/var/run/dbus:/bin/false dbus:x:81:81:System message bus:/:/bin/false dbus:!:81: video:x:33:daria,dbus
Also, another thing is that you don't necessarily need to create the directories and cache in /etc/hal/, they are already present in /usr/share/hal. So I just linked them and it worked in openSUSE 12.2.
So they are. I suppose I simply went for where the system expected to find them rather than go look for them elsewhere. I'll bear that in mind when I start the next system.
Thanks for you help,
Thanks for the advice too.
-- Chris "Chika" Johnson MMW Crashnet
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