On 08/05/16 09:50, Sl�vek Banko wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 of April 2016 11:36:17 Jan Stolarek wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have TDE 3.5.13.2 installed on Debian 7.10. Some time ago (probably after
>> one of security updates) my KPowerSave stopped working - it does not allow
>> me to set power scheme nor does it recognize whether the laptop is running
>> on battery or A/C. These features still work in other programs (eg. htop
>> recognizes whether I am running on battery or A/C, I can use cpufreq-set to
>> set CPU speed) so this is not a system-wide breakage. Does anyone have any
>> ideas what might be wrong?
>>
>> Janek
>>
>
> HAL does not have its own init script, because it automatically triggered by
> the dbus - see /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Hal.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Hal.service: No such 
file or directory

>
> However, it seems that I've discovered a problem due to what HAL startup
> fails. Try creating the following symlinks (needs to run as root):
>
> ln -s -t /etc/hal/fdi /usr/share/hal/fdi/information /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe
I have no directory
    /etc/hal/fdi
on my machine.
>
>
> ...and then try to activate HAL by using the following command (as user):
>
> dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/
> DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName string:org.freedesktop.Hal
> uint32:0
>
I didn't create the links but here's what I got:

$ dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus 
/org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName 
string:org.freedesktop.Hal uint32:0
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name 
org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files


Hope this helps.

Philip Ashmore