apt-get dist-upgrade, and X issues

[stan]

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 06:09:02AM +0100, Florian Diesch wrote:
> stan <stanb at panix.com> writes:
> 
> > (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
> > (II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
> > (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
> > 	If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AllowEmptyInput.
> 
> 
> What does
>   hal-find-by-capability --capability input|xargs -i lshal -u '{}'
> print?
> 
Could not initialise connection to hald.
Normally this means the HAL daemon (hald) is not running or not ready.

And

root at boo-boo:/var/log# ps -ef | grep hal
root     18265  7923  0 08:15 pts/0    00:00:00 grep hal

OBut if I do a "start hal", then I get Lot's of capabilty, and now the
mouse an keyboard work in my currently runnig X session. Remeber that I
manualy started kdm, after it did not come up when booted,

So, the issue appears to be the startup of hal. Whe did the startup
methodolgy chage from /etc/init.d scripts to, whatever it is know, and BTW
what the heck is it now, and why in the word make Ubuntu different than
other mainstream *NIX'es?

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