gnome-device-manager (hal) crashes as soon as it is launched in LiveCD

[Francesco Levorato]

I downloaded the LiveCD and launched it. This is the only problem I got so far.
After launching hal, a window appears for some nanoseconds, and this is the
output in console. Daemon hald wasnt started (at least I didnt manually started
it). I dont know if this is the expected behaviour of hal when it is launched
with no hald running. If it is, bug report severity should be changed to
"enhancement", where the enhancement would be the addition of a notice on
launching hal, informing the user "hald" is not started.
warty@ubuntu:~ $ hal-device-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/hal-device-manager", line 15, in ?
DeviceManager()
File "/usr/share/hal/device-manager/DeviceManager.py", line 54, in __init__
"/org/freedesktop/Hal/Manager")
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/dbus.py", line 83, in add_signal_receiver
match_rule = self._get_match_rule(signal_name, interface, service, path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/dbus.py", line 112, in _get_match_rule
service = bus_object.GetServiceOwner(service)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/dbus.py", line 208, in __call__
reply_message = self._connection.send_with_reply_and_block(message, 5000)
File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 557, in
dbus_bindings.Connection.send_with_reply_and_block
dbus_bindings.DBusException: Could not get owner of service
'org.freedesktop.Hal': no such service
warty@ubuntu:~ $

[Alex de Landgraaf (alextreme)]

Was this in the preview version or the RC version? This bug did exist in the
preview version (#1990), and is fixed in the RC version (#1990 is closed), see:

http://archive.ubuntulinux.org/cdimage/releases/warty/

to grab the latest one. If this is the RC version, I'll open it again.

cheers,

Alex

[Francesco Levorato (ubuntu-flevour)]

I confirm it was a preview iso, downloaded from
http://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/ubuntu-cdimage/releases/warty/preview/live-i386.iso.
Now I am getting this one:
http://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/ubuntu-cdimage/releases/warty/rcc3/live-i386.iso, is
it correct?
Could be a suggestion to either take the outdated files away from the ftp
servers or put them in a "old" directory, keeping them for historical reasons or so.
Sorry for disturbing the community,
flevour

[Alex de Landgraaf (alextreme)]

No problem, it wasn't a disturbance, and yes that's the right iso.
They're currently working on setting everything up for the final release next
week, the old version should be removed shortly. Thanks for the suggestion though.