On Saturday 20 of September 2014 18:48:01 Felmon Davis wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, Sl�vek Banko wrote: > > On Saturday 20 of September 2014 11:50:40 Felmon Davis wrote: > >> greets! > >> > >> so I see there's no hal in '/etc/init.d'! > >> > >> apt-get says the latest version is installed. > >> > >> I'm considering removing hal and reinstalling it. seems quite risky > >> given everything that's associated with it. > >> > >> I cannot rip up this machine too much though, not in busy season. > >> > >> how should I proceed to restore hald? > >> > >> F. > > > > Absence init script for hald is not a fault - is initialized from dbus > > daemon. The question is, what's your kernel version - from distribution > > or backports? > > from backports; 'uname -r' says: > > 3.2.0.0-0.bpo.4-686-pae > > it's a dual-core Acer Aspire v5 laptop. > > F. So that explains it! Hal from distribution does not work properly with the kernel from backports. I have updated hal packages, but so far I have not uploaded this packages into my ppa. -- Slavek