OpenRC fails to start HAL

[egore@gmx.de]

I had some trouble with HAL lately and so I removed it from my system to reinstall it. Before removing it was at runlevel default. After I installed HAL again it was not starting ater the reboot. It was just not showing up in the boot log. So I thought it was because it was removed from the runlevel during reinstallation. But it is present. I checked the following:

# rc-update | grep hald

hald | default

and

# ls -l /etc/runlevels/default/hald
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 May 3 18:21 /etc/runlevels/default/hald -> /etc/init.d/hald

But it is not started when entering runlevel default. So I thought: add it to "need" in xdm so it comes up. But doing so does not HAL to be started before xdm.

I have no idea why it is not started. It is even reported to be stopped:

# /etc/init.d/hald status

• status: stopped

And no sign of it could be found in /lib/rc/init.d

Can someone enlighten me what might stop HAL from starting?

(This all happens on a gentoo using openrc 0.4.3-r2)

[roy]

roy@uberpc ~ $ /sbin/rc-service hald status
* status: started
roy@uberpc ~ $ /sbin/rc-update | grep hald
                 hald |                                          default      

Works fine here.

What is the output of

/sbin/rc-service hald restart

[egore@gmx.de]

This is the output after a fresh restart of my system:

egore912 ~ # /sbin/rc-service hald status
* status: stopped
egore912 ~ # /sbin/rc-update | grep hald
                 hald |               default
egore912 ~ # /sbin/rc-service hald restart
* Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon...             [ ok ]

As you can see it's listed in the default runlevel but for some reason it is not started. And for me it worked like a charm until I removed hal and reinstalled it. While I'm thinking about what I did:

• "/etc/init.d/hald start"
• "emerge -C hald"
• "reboot" (accidentially)
• "emerge hal"

Somewhere during this I think I put openrc into a state where it thinks the service is running when entering a runlevel while it actually isn't. Is there some difference in what "/sbin/rc-service hald status" returns and what is used to determine which services to start during a runlevel change.

[roy]

If you run

rc-update -u

Does that help?

[egore@gmx.de]

... and now it works! :-) Wonder what went wrong. But updating the service dependencies fixed it. Good point. Many thanks!