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