On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, Sl�vek Banko wrote:

> 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.

good news, in a way.

I had to use a kernel like this because of wifi.

F.

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Felmon Davis

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