Topic: Disabling haldaemon?

[ddougan]

I have a recurring issue with the haldaemon on SME Server 7.0. It will either hang for several minutes on start-up or will hang solidly (Bug 849). When it hangs, the only way I've been able to resolve it is by inserting the CD and running Update, although even this is not consistently getting past the hang.

So, until there is a resolution for this, is disabling haldaemon an option? It starts pretty late in the boot process, so can't be interfacing with the hardware during boot. When is it used? I understand that it provides some services for USB devices, which I don't connect to this server.

Can it be disabled, and if so, what is the SME way of doing so (I read the chkconfig man page and then the command against the daemon, and note that it does not show runlevel 7).


Thanks for any help,

Des

[byte]

You can disable it by typing...

db configuration setprop haldaemon status disabled
signal-event console-save

[ddougan]

Thanks, Byte, for the quick response.

What's the downside to disabling it?


Des

[Brave Dave]

I have a recent DELL AMD running e-smith

- wouldn't recommend it; it was a cheap workstation I think it was a 530 - recent but superceeded

suddenly after a reboot it will not function; locks up shortly after starting the haldaemon

so I disabled it ... but have started looking into if there is any consequence, this is the only thread I have found;

does anyone know if there is a downside for disabling it ?

[CharlieBrady]

What's the downside to disabling it?

You won't be able to use USB devices for backup.

[CharlieBrady]

You can disable it by typing...

db configuration setprop haldaemon status disabled
signal-event console-save

"signal-event console-save" isn't doing anything useful here. Just the "db configuration ..." will achieve the desired result - on the next reboot, haldaemon won't be started.