user haldaemon does not exist

[philip brown]

--- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

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> philip brown wrote:
> > I'm running 6.2 RC1 and I get the following error 
> > message (follows) when hald tries to start up.
> > 
> > I added a regular user named "haldaemon" with
> adduser
> > and hald all worked fine. 
> > 
> > I also 
> > 1.) commented out cdrom device in /etc/fstab 
> > 2.) made sure /media folder existed
> > 3.) pw group mod operator -m philip as in q.19 g2
> faq
> > 
> > so I do have a working hald installation, however
> I
> > would like "haldaemon" as a system account (ie.
> like
> > www or uucp or pop). not like a regular end user
> (ie.
> > philip david dweezil moon_unit).
> > 
> > I am relatively new to freebsd administration, can
> > somebody please advise how I would achieve this.
> > 
> > I would imagine on installation "haldaemon" should
> > have been installed?
> 
> How did you install hal?  This user should be
> created automatically by
> the port and/or package.
> 
> Joe
> 
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> Joe Marcus Clarke
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Just off the 6.2 RC1 cd packages... 

installed Freebsd with x and the after logging into x
I ran sysinstall - configure packages - gnome

gnome installation failed (dodgy disc i think) however
it missed one package that I received manually via
pkg_add -r gnome2. i forget which, however only 1
package which was a few hundred kB's

thanks for quik response

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