advisory: FC3 + hald + athlon

[Nathaniel Reindl <fiction@sdf.lonestar.org>]

I don't know how many of you have encountered this in running FC3, but
I kind of noticed that hald would stop running properly and just
silently die after the first boot without any rhyme or reason.  That
is, doing a ``service haldaemon restart'' would yield something
similar to

	Stopping HAL daemon:                               [FAILED]
	Starting HAL daemon:                               [  OK  ]

every time, no matter what, no matter which planets were in alignment,
no matter if your grandma was complaining and shaking her cane at you.
It just would not stay alive, and it just so happens that it breaks a
lot of things in Gnome, namely nautilus and anything else that uses
HAL to communicate with the hardware.

Now, I got kind of annoyed, so I went ahead and grabbed the .src.rpm
for hal and rebuilt it...

<<EOS
fenrir:~# rpm -qf /usr/bin/rpmbuild  # make sure you have rpm-build installed
rpm-build-4.3.2-21
fenrir:~# wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/SRPMS/hal-0.4.0-10.src.rpm
--19:37:20--  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/SRPMS/hal-0.4.0-10.src.rpm
           => `hal-0.4.0-10.src.rpm'
Resolving download.fedora.redhat.com... 66.187.224.20, 209.132.176.20, 209.132.176.220, ...
Connecting to download.fedora.redhat.com[66.187.224.20]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1,362,362 [application/x-rpm]

100%[====================================>] 1,362,362     59.80K/s    ETA 00:00

19:37:46 (62.30 KB/s) - `hal-0.4.0-10.src.rpm' saved [1,362,362/1,362,362]

fenrir:~# rpmbuild --rebuild --target=athlon hal-0.4.0-10.src.rpm
[insert lots and lots of configure and make output here]
fenrir:~# rpm -Uvh --force /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/athlon/hal-0.4.0-10.athlon.rpm /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/athlon/hal-devel-0.4.0-10.athlon.rpm
EOS

That seems to have fixed it.  HTH in case any of you encounter this
problem.

-- 
Nathaniel Reindl

    "Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt."
       (The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.)
			-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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