[Mageia-discuss] Vicious problem with missing hal in alpha 1

Sat Nov 26 11:59:09 CET 2011

I successfully installed alpha 1 from the brand new iso DVD. Install 
+goes smoothly, but after booting the system, I come to a screeming stop:
+
+When I try to run urpmi (from a console) for installing update packages, 
+urpmi refuses with the message that the hal daemon is not running.
+
+rpm -q in fact confirms that hal is not installed (I had done a 
+perfectly standard KDE install). Doing "urpmi hal" gives the evident 
+result: it lists 9 packages to be installed (among which is hal) but 
+then fails because the hal daemon is not running.
+
+That puts a stop to any further testing. Is there a work around that 
+allows to install hal while the hal daemon is not running?
+
+I have seen a second problem: although I have configured my system with 
+an expliciteyly specified host name, the shell prompt says localhost 
+(and typing "hostname" echoes "localhost"; nevertheless, 
+/etc/sysconfig/network contains as its HOSTNAME=<host> line the value 
+for <host> that I had specified.
+
+I will file a bug on the hostname problem - the hal problem looks so 
+primitive that I have doubts wheter I did not do something wrong when I 
+did my install (but I consciously kept my install to an obvious "newby 
+install" - i586, Dell Optiplex 755 desktop). I suspend filing a bug 
+until I get some echo to this message.
+
+