On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:40 +0900, Mitsuho Iizuka wrote:
on FC3 kernel 2.6.9-1.681(Dec 1 yum update), /usr/sbin/hald always
puts core dump. That's why I don't have inconvenient gnome desktop.

From: Mitsuho Iizuka <m-iizuka@cp.jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: gnome-volume-manager startup failed (FC3)
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:43:12 +0900 (JST)

>     # /usr/sbin/hald --verbose=yes --daemon=yes
>       15:31:52.305 [I] hald.c:394: hal 0.4.0
>       15:31:52.305 [I] hald.c:396: Will daemonize
>       15:31:52.305 [I] hald.c:406: Becoming a daemon

  # /usr/sbin/hald --verbose=yes --daemon=no
  16:35:31.423 [I] hald.c:394: hal 0.4.0
  16:35:31.424 [I] hald.c:398: Will not daemonize
  Segmentation Violation (core dumped)

Anyone knows how to fix ? Thanks in advance.

# Is this a TOP Post some hate ?

// M.Iizuka


The way I fixed this was to just reinstall hal from the CD. banged my head for 2 hours with this but forgot to see what had changed compared to the hal.rpm...
The only thing I can think of that happened before this problem was that I jumped out of kudzu while it was updating my wireless driver