Hi All, I had an issue. Manually installing Centos 6 everything worked X11 came up with nvidia binary drivers. Cool. However, I am working on a kickstart install for Centos 6 and that was not working. When I started X it would hang. no mouse no keyboard. however , remote ssh was available and worked. Thinking I had some serious bug in nvidia binary was my thought - but I kept looking. I saw this error: (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null) in the X log file. I continued to look and sure enough hald was installed but not running. I did service haldaemon stop and it said FAILED as expected, then service haldaemon start and it started up. Curious.... chkconfig --list | grep hal reports haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off So thats the reason of course, it was not set to start. Question is why???? certainly I can put in my kickstart post script to change chkconfig but why is it not set to start???? Thanks for any insite. Jerry
Jerry Geis wrote:> Hi All, > > I had an issue. Manually installing Centos 6 everything worked X11 came > up with nvidia binary drivers. Cool. > However, I am working on a kickstart install for Centos 6 and that was > not working. When I started X it would hang. no mouse no keyboard. > however , remote ssh was available and worked.<snip>> I continued to look and sure enough hald was installed but not running. > I did service haldaemon stop and it said FAILED as expected, then > service haldaemon start > and it started up. Curious....<snip> There seem to be a number of problems with X: I *finally* solved mine yesterday, of being forced to use one (very small) font with rxvt, when I found that installing X did *not* install xorg-x11-fonts. However, I find it very disturbing that haldaemon isn't on by default. I haven't noticed this - has anyone else? mark
Jerry Geis wrote:> Hi All, > > I had an issue. Manually installing Centos 6 everything worked X11 > came up with nvidia binary drivers. Cool. > However, I am working on a kickstart install for Centos 6 and that was > not working. When I started X it > would hang. no mouse no keyboard. however , remote ssh was available > and worked. > > Thinking I had some serious bug in nvidia binary was my thought - but > I kept looking. > I saw this error: > > (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null) > > in the X log file. > > I continued to look and sure enough hald was installed but not running. > I did service haldaemon stop and it said FAILED as expected, then > service haldaemon start > and it started up. Curious.... > > chkconfig --list | grep hal reports > haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off > > So thats the reason of course, it was not set to start. Question is > why???? > > certainly I can put in my kickstart post script to change chkconfig > but why is it not set to start???? > > Thanks for any insite. > > Jerry > > >After further investigating... I found the issue. I was in fact turning off haldaemon. Some obscure install script I forgot about. This must have been ok in centos 5 and X as I just checked my machines and in fact it is off. Not sure why I turned it off way back... Thanks, Jerry