Comment 6 for bug 276857

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:59:57PM -0000, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 16:17 +0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > By default, hal starts at S24 while gdm starts at S30. Have you changed
> > the startup order at all?
> >
> > Can you confirm whether hal is running, e.g. by adding "lshal >>
> > somelogfile" to /etc/init.d/gdm:start?
>
> I've attached the two different lshals. One from gdm:start and one when
> the system is completely running. The difference is 5 devices.
>
> udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_5ac_8205_noserial'
> udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_5ac_8205_noserial_if0'
> udi =
> '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_5ac_8205_noserial_if0_bluetooth_hci_1b636334f3'
> udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_5ac_8205_noserial_if1'
> udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_5ac_8205_noserial_if2'
>
> These seem to be all enhanced ACPI keys and similar things. I'm not
> sure why they would have an effect. They seem to be in the same USB
> chain, I wonder if there is an init issue with the USB tree. Though it
> does seem like the state of HAL is different when X starts the first
> time vs. the second.

Bizarre...can you post a copy of the instrumented gdm init script? Are you
running lshal before gdm even starts, so that we're certain it is up and
running already?

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 - mdz