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

[Andrei Thorp]

Alright. Perhaps if we're in agreement on this point, it should be
removed from the wiki that this can "cause problems". Honestly, I'm
not sure what these problems could be, I was just going as per advice.
Regardless, nice to keep my DAEMONS list a bit shorter.

Cheers,

-AT

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
>