HAL bug?

[Derek Broughton]

Alexander Smirnov wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>
>> Please don't use HTML to mail lists...
>>   
> Sorry about this. I used HTML for colorizing ls output and forgot that
> many people use text-based mail programs.

Actually, I don't - but your mail is either HTML only, or the text
alternative is stripped between sending and receiving from gmane, because I
only get the HTML portion.
>>   
>>> Probably restarting HAL daemon would help, but i do not what is correct
>>> way to restart it. There is no sh script under /etc/init.d for
>>> running/stopping/restarting HAL.

It appears:

# sudo dpkg-reconfigure hal

will do the job fairly easily. After I did that, I also had
a /etc/init.d/hal (I don't actually know if that reinstalled it - I don't
think it should - or I just missed it before).  I don't know what it does,
though, because 'hald' never seems to be running.
-- 
derek