On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Michael D. Berger <m.d.berger@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of >> Richard Shaw >> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:00 >> To: Community support for Fedora users >> Subject: Re: F15_64: K3b fails, wants HAL >> >> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Michael D. Berger >> <m.d.berger@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > F15_64: K3b fails with a popup that says the to be sure the >> HAL daemon >> > is running. "systemctl list-units" >> > does not show HAL, and goog says HAL is depricated. >> >> HAL is depreciated but there are some corner cases where udev >> or dbus don't yet completely fill the void.Optical devices is >> one of those corner cases. >> >> A quick search shows that k3b can be built with or without >> HAL but I'm not sure how it was built in Fedora. >> >> >> > What to do? BTW, my cdrom has a SATA interface. >> >> If it's truely needed HAL should have been pulled in as a >> dependency when you installed k3b, > > If this it? > > [root@mbrc40 ~]# yum list installed | grep -i hal > hal-libs.x86_64 0.5.14-6.fc15 > @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131943.x86_64 > > If so, how do I get the daemon started? > find /lib -iname "*.service" | grep -i hal > finds some things named "halt", but no "hal". > ls /etc/init.d/ | grep -i hal > finds nothing. > > If not, is there something I should "yum install"? I'm not sure hal runs as a traditional daemon. Try "yum install hal" and see if that clears it up. Richard -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines