Comment 5 for bug 24029

firstuser@jerrac:~$ pidof hald

firstuser@jerrac:~$ cd /var/run/dbus
firstuser@jerrac:/var/run/dbus$ dir
firstuser@jerrac:/var/run/dbus$ ls
firstuser@jerrac:/var/run/dbus$ sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart
Password:
 * Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: [ ok ]
 * Stopping system message bus... [ ok ]
 * Starting system message bus... [ ok ]
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer: [ ok ]
firstuser@jerrac:/var/run/dbus$ pidof hald
11521
firstuser@jerrac:/var/run/dbus$

(In reply to comment #4)
> Thanks for the hdparm and dmesg outputs. Both look good, so we need to dig deeper.
>
> 1. Confirm that hal is not running: "pidof hald" should not print out anything.
> 2. Check whether dbus is running: If /var/run/dbus/pid exists, and "ps -p $(<
> /var/run/dbus/pid)" prints out a line which says "dbus-daemon", it is running,
> otherwise not.
> 3. Try to start dbus and hal manually: "sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart". Please
> give me the output.
> 4. Check whether hal is running: If "pidof hald" prints out a number, it is
running.
>
> Based on the answers to these four questions, I have further debugging steps.
> Thanks!