user haldaemon does not exist
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at marcuscom.com
Thu Nov 30 14:29:07 PST 2006
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 21:48 +0000, philip brown wrote:
> --- 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
> >
> > - --
> > Joe Marcus Clarke
> > FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome at FreeBSD.org
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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
The user will be added provided PACKAGE_BUILDING is not defined in your
environment. I don't see any reason why this would fail otherwise.
Joe
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