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.

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Felmon Davis