[gobolinux-users] udevd errors during HAL upgrade

[Michael Homer]

On 10/28/07, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:
> On 10/28/07, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/25/07, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:
> > > On 10/25/07, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:
> > > > On 10/25/07, Hi There <goboster at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > > I got a bunch of errors when upgrading HAL which was pulled in by upgrading to
> > > > > KDE-Base 3.5.8. The errors came from from udevd during HAL (or possibly
> > > > > HAL-Info) package installation.
> > > > Same here. I don't think I get those specific messages (or any visible
> > > > errors at all, come to think of it), but most HAL-related things
> > > > didn't work, and the daemon appeared to have died silently at some
> > > > points. It's worth noting though that part of the problem seems to be
> > > > the KDE packages themselves; rewinding HAL alone didn't fix the
> > > > problem.
> > > I should clarify what I meant by that; the 3.5.8 packages didn't work,
> > > or rather KDM caused X to die trying to load a pci module of some
> > > description (startx worked). Symlinking back to 3.5.7 didn't restore
> > > old behaviour for automounting or media:/, but did make KDM work. I
> > > had to perform the given steps to have that function again. They may
> > > not all be necessary, since I've reassembled them from the results of
> > > quite a bit of experimenting.
> >
> > Strange. I haven't tested KDM yet, but the KDE 3.5.8 packages seem to
> > work well with HAL here:
> I'm going to investigate it further in a couple of days when I get
> some time together. It seemed very odd that KDM would cause X to load
> additional modules it wouldn't do on its own, so it may be some
> configuration quirk on my system. The HAL problems may have had more
> to do with an inconsistent system state than anything else, since I
> symlinked them out when KDM didn't run. Hopefully I can track them
> both down.
As a partial follow-up: upgrading just HAL and HAL-Info, leaving KDE
at 3.5.7, lets KDM and KDE start correctly. However, the same freeze
seems to occur on "End session" (but not "Turn off computer").

It also changes my keyboard mappings radically - arrows,
home/end/pgup/pgdn/ins/del, and modifiers all have their keycodes
switched around. A very long xmodmap script fixed most of that up, but
a few problems remained in odd places, which makes me think the
problem is in the interaction with Xorg somewhere. I've rolled back to
old HAL after being unable to resolve them.

Examples of those problems: Ctrl-Right generated the same keycode as
bare Right, but no keysym; Alt-Up did the same (both of these were
fixed in xev by repeating the keysym in the shift slot, but only
Ctrl-Right worked in KDE); binding mod4+arrow in KDE would not
function in use, but would be detected properly in the keybinding
dialog.
-Michael