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hal package

  1. Bug #139155
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 139155

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lcampagn (luke-campagnola) wrote : Re: [Bug 139155] Re: hald will not start

I seem to have fixed this problem this way:
# mv /var/cache/hald/fdi-cache~ /var/cache/hald/fdi-cache

It would be nice if hald would just create this file rather than dying
when it doesn't exist, particularly since the system is pretty much
unusable without hal.