[arch-general] boot hangs on hal load after updates today. [Solved - it was udev]

[David C. Rankin]

On 02/13/2012 04:55 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 02/13/2012 04:39 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Calvin Morrison
>> <mutantturkey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> es with this before as well. Do you have an exact
>>> error? Mine ended up being a udev rule written by hal that caused the
>>> breakage. Hopefully we can get it resolved.
>>
>> Does HAL still write the offending rule on updated systems? If so,
>> could you paste it so we can see how big trouble to expect?
>>
>> HAL was already dead when I got involved with these things, so please
>> forgive my ignorance.
>>
>> -t
>>
> 
> Tom, Calvin,
> 
>   Thanks. Calvin, which rule? I probably is udev. You think Soltys can find it
> in AUR version and get rid of it?
> 

The boot hang was cause by the move of udev binaries from /sbin to /usr/bin. hal
had hard-coded the /sbin location. Pawel updated the hal package in AUR and it
solved the problem. If your system is using hal in any way, then update to hal
0.5.14-8:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51454

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.