[Buildroot] [HALd] Slow startup (>4min.)

[Buildroot] [HALd] Slow startup (>4min.)

[Patryk Benderz]

Hi all,
I am using for this compilation BR snapshoot from 2011-03-30.
	I was struggling with hald slow startup for few past days and wasn't
able to find out any answer in my favourite search engine ;). HAL
startup takes exactly 4 minutes and 10 seconds on x86 target. HAL
doesn't write out any info during startup
	Maybe someone here already have ready answer - what am I missing to
start HAL quickly?

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[Buildroot] [HALd] Slow startup (>4min.)

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:23:07 +0200
Patryk Benderz <Patryk.Benderz@esp.pl> wrote:

> I am using for this compilation BR snapshoot from 2011-03-30.
> 	I was struggling with hald slow startup for few past days and
> wasn't able to find out any answer in my favourite search engine ;).
> HAL startup takes exactly 4 minutes and 10 seconds on x86 target. HAL
> doesn't write out any info during startup
> 	Maybe someone here already have ready answer - what am I
> missing to start HAL quickly?

Could you run it through strace to see what's going on ?

However, notice that HAL is deprecated these days. For what usage do
you need HAL ?

I'm currently packaging udisks and all related dependencies, so that
signalisation of block device events can be propagated on D-Bus.

Regards,

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[Buildroot] [HALd] Slow startup (>4min.)

[Patryk Benderz]

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> Could you run it through strace to see what's going on ?
Hi Thomas,
Thanks for help. I could if this is necessary. If this Helps, when I
start HAL as:
# hald --verbose=yes
I get all info on console instantly with last line saying: "becoming a
demon". Then for 4 minutes nothing happens and after that Console prompt
returns.

> However, notice that HAL is deprecated these days. For what usage do
> you need HAL ?
Auto mounting USB storage (usbmount does not seem to work, and there is
no info in any log files about it)

> I'm currently packaging udisks and all related dependencies, so that
> signalisation of block device events can be propagated on D-Bus.
Will it automount USB pendrives with FAT32 fs?
What time horizon do you see before udisks are usable in one of BR
releases? I mean... should I wait, or it will take long?

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[Buildroot] [HALd] Slow startup (>4min.)

[Daniele Salvatore Albano]

Il 06/04/2011 12:22, Patryk Benderz ha scritto:
> Auto mounting USB storage (usbmount does not seem to work, and there is
> no info in any log files about it)

You can try to use udev to obtain the same result: write an sh script 
that handle device mounting when called by udev.

Look here for more info on udev rules for usb automounting:
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/17785.html (on the bottom of the 
page there is a really simple rule)
http://www.debianhelp.org/node/9937#comment-46659
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Auto_mounting_USB_devices (the 
most useful i think)

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,
Daniele
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[Buildroot] [HALd] Slow startup (>4min.)

[Patryk Benderz]

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> http://www.debianhelp.org/node/9937#comment-46659
I have already read this link, but not the comments. Last comment seems
very useful.
	Thanks Daniele - this will probably save my day - as soon as i will be
able to compile ;)
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