HALD(8)                                                                                                                  HALD(8)



NAME
       hald - HAL daemon

SYNOPSIS
       hald [options]


DESCRIPTION
       hald  is  a  daemon that maintains a database of the devices connected to the system system in real-time. The daemon con-
       nects to the D-Bus system message bus to provide an API that applications can use to discover, monitor and invoke  opera-
       tions  on  devices. For more information about both the big picture and specific API details, refer to the HAL spec which
       can be found in /usr/share/doc/hal-0.5.14/spec/hal-spec.html depending on the distribution.


OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       --daemon=yes|no
              Specify whether to run in the foreground or the background.

       --verbose=yes|no
              Enable verbose debug output.

       --use-syslog
              Enable logging of debug output to the syslog instead of stderr. Use this option only together with --verbose.

       --help Print out usage.

       --version
              Print the version of the daemon and exit.


BUGS AND DEBUGGING
       Please send bug reports to either the distribution  or  the  HAL  mailing  list,  see  http://lists.freedesktop.org/mail-
       man/listinfo/hal on how to subscribe.

       First,  to  obtain  useful debug traces you will need to have debuginfo packages installed. On a Fedora system this is in
       the hal-debuginfo package and can be installed via the yum update program.

       Second, shut down the existing hald daemon instance; on a Fedora system this is achieved by

       /etc/init.d/haldaemon stop

       After having shut down the daemon, you might want to run

       pkill hald

       to ensure that all the helper processe of hald are killed too. To start the HAL daemon, use

       /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes

       If the daemon crashes, you can start it under a debugger via

       gdb /usr/sbin/hald

       and then typing

       run --daemon=no --verbose=yes

       at the (gdb) prompt. To capture a back trace, use the bt command and attach this to the bug report.

       Please also attach the output of lshal(1) in the bug report if possible (it's not possible if the hald  daemon  crashed).
       If the nature of the bug has to do with hotplugging, attach two outputs of lshal(1) - one before the device hotplug event
       and one after.


SEE ALSO
       udev(7), dbus-daemon(1), lshal(1), hal-set-property(1), hal-get-property(1),  hal-find-by-property(1),  hal-find-by-capa-
       bility(1), hal-is-caller-locked-out(1)


AUTHOR
       Written by David Zeuthen <davidATfubar.dk> with a lot of help from many others.




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