[arch-general] Crud! Rebooted Can't Login - No Mouse or Keyboard with kdm??

[Jan de Groot]

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 21:37 +0200, Bram Schoenmakers wrote:
> On Thursday 23 April 2009 20:31:45 Andrei Thorp wrote:
> 
> > "When HAL initializes it will check
> > for the presence of D-Bus and load it automatically. If you have dbus
> > in your list of daemons, remove it, since it can cause problems."
> >
> > -AT
> 
> Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what problems could arise?
> 
> Kind regards,


There is no problem putting dbus in the DAEMONS array, as long as it's
started before hal it's fine. This "start dbus" logic was added to hal
because users didn't put dbus in rc.conf and reported bugs about "hal
not working". Hal won't start dbus when it's already running.