hald chokes after breezy->dapper update

[O. Sinclair]

Art Alexion wrote:
> As I had feared, my breezy to dapper update had some annoying problems.  Most 
> have been fixed.  Some I can't solve by myself.  First the easy stuff.
> 
> 1. I had a systray applet with 3 simple bars that gave a reasonable 
> approximation of CPU, memory, and swap usage, while taking up little space.  
> I don't remember the name of the app, and nothing in my current menus bring 
> it up.
> 
> 2. I had a systray applet with two box graphs that monitored network and/or 
> Internet traffic.  Again, I don't remember the name of the app, and nothing 
> in my current menus bring it up.
> 
> 3. Here is the hardest and most important problem.  The init.d sript that 
> initiates hald (the Hardware Application Layer daemon) chokes and stall my 
> boot with the message "ll does not exist".  After repeatedly pressing ctrl+c 
> and ctrl+d, booting proceeds after giving me a return code of 2 on the 
> script.  If I try to run the script from a konsole window using "restart", I 
> get a locked konsole on "starting hald..."
> 
> The result that I have noticed is that my iPod does not appear on the desktop, 
> and if I try to manually mount it to sda1, amarok can't see it.
> 
> Please help.  I am at my wit's end on this.
> 
I might be able to help you on the 2 first;
I think you mean the KSysGuard applet, right-click on the panel and 
choose "Add Applet to panel", find KSysGuard
The second one I think is KNemo, find via Adept or Apt-get after adding 
repositories (why this is not standard goes beyond me, in Ubuntu the 
equivalent is).

as for HAL - I will read with interest as I suspect my own problem with 
unmountable USB devices is connected.

Sinclair