I had the same problem on 12.2. If you pay attention the output of hald is "Active: active (exited)" so it's not running. A few weeks ago I had sent an e-mail to this list and then I found the solution in a opensuse forun. I copy-past the solution here: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/prin... For some reason the folder /etc/hal was empty. What I had to do was to create a link to /usr/share/hal/: cd /etc/hal ln -s /usr/share/hal/* ./ /etc/init.d/haldaemon stop /etc/init.d/haldaemon start Now, hald is running and so is kpowersave! I hope that this helps! Gianluca On Sun, 24 Mar 2013, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Erik Sorenson
wrote: I wrote this install-guide up for 3.5 on 12.3 (also write ups on each 11.x and 12.x): I don't believe HAL libraries have been provided for 3.5 since 12.1. I'm using 12.3/3.5 100% of the time now, and no impactful problems yet. I didn't use HAl in 12.2, either.
I can't get KPowersave to work on 12.3. I've tried your guide & another post about HAL stuff, but no luck. HAL is enabled:
"Checking for service HAL daemon unused haldaemon.service - LSB: HAL is a daemon for managing information about the hardware on the system Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/haldaemon) Active: active (exited) since Sun, 2013-03-24 22:55:28 EDT; 40s ago Process: 5805 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/haldaemon start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/haldaemon.service
Mar 24 22:55:28 linux-jy34.site systemd[1]: Starting LSB: HAL is a daemon for managing information about the hardware on th...tem... Mar 24 22:55:28 linux-jy34.site haldaemon[5805]: chown: invalid user: 'haldaemon:haldaemon' Mar 24 22:55:28 linux-jy34.site haldaemon[5805]: Starting HAL daemon..done Mar 24 22:55:28 linux-jy34.site systemd[1]: Started LSB: HAL is a daemon for managing information about the hardware on the system."
YaST shows HAL installed. So I'm not sure what else I need to do. Any ideas?
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