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 Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject: HAL Daemon Stalls after upgrade |
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I upgraded from 2007.0 PWP to 2008.0 PWP and it did not produce any errors or warnings. After completing the install succesfully, I rebooted. When it reached the STARTING HAL Daemon it stops and opens my DVD Tray. I put the DVD back in, but it does nothing. I press enter and the DVD tray opens up again. I disconnected all USB devices, same results. I kinda leaning towards the video driver, I have an ATI Radeon 9550/x1050 series. Any help would be greatly appriciated.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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try booting with the kernel parameter 'nopinit' to disable parallel init, and see what service it fails at now (it may be a different one). Then reboot and press 'I' for interactive boot when prompted, and skip the service that was failing.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| awilliamson wrote: | | try booting with the kernel parameter 'nopinit' to disable parallel init, and see what service it fails at now (it may be a different one). Then reboot and press 'I' for interactive boot when prompted, and skip the service that was failing. |
Did as instructed turns out that hadrdrake wants the DVD inserted for new hardware it found. Don't know what it found but after choosing interactive mode and bypassing it I was able to bootup just fine. How do I find out what new hardware it is seeing and why does it not see the DVD media. it see the drive, it's pointing to /hdc, just not the media which is the same one I used to upgrade.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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several people with multiple optical drives found that, after installation, urpmi's configuration was pointing to the wrong drive, so it couldn't find the disc when it asked for it. try editing /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg to point to the correct location for the drive.
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oh, I bet it's so early in the boot process, the disc isn't getting auto-mounted when you insert it, so it can't find it. heh.
okay, so, try this...once the system's booted, restart the harddrake service, maybe then it'll be able to do whatever it wants to do and shut up...
as root:
service -f harddrake
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| awilliamson wrote: | oh, I bet it's so early in the boot process, the disc isn't getting auto-mounted when you insert it, so it can't find it. heh.
okay, so, try this...once the system's booted, restart the harddrake service, maybe then it'll be able to do whatever it wants to do and shut up...
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service -f harddrake |
Thank very much Mr Williamson, that did the trick. Have great day.
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great, glad it worked. not sure how we could deal with that particular little loophole...
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| Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:49 am Post subject: |
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I had a similar problem with a mouse. I installed 2008 at my house using a ball type mouse. When I hooked it up at my friends house using his hardware, on reboot, the tray opened at install hardware and would not continue. He was using an optical mouse. I had to use my ball mouse before it would complete booting. I tried to use failsafe mode but it stopped at the same place. How can I get the optical mouse to work? Will this be a problem whenever I switch hardware? His keyboard and monitor work OK.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:19 am Post subject: |
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Same workaround I recommended above - plug in the mouse after booting and restart the harddrake service, it should then do whatever it wants to do and then it won't bug you at boot any more.
There's a bug report for this now:
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=35305
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