cannot get a custom build of HAL to run

[Vinay Reddy]

> > Hi,
> > I checked out HAL's source code from its git tree, did a autogen.sh
> > (with the options suggested in the HACKING file) and make. It compiled
> > fine, but when I try to run it with "sudo ./hald --daemon=yes
> > --verbose=yes", I get the following output, but nothing happens:
> >
> > 05:42:31.672 [I] hald.c:634: hal 0.5.10
> > 05:42:31.673 [I] hald.c:643: Will daemonize
> > 05:42:31.678 [I] hald.c:644: Becoming a daemon
> >
> > ('ps -aux|grep hald' gives nothing).
>
> Try --daemon=no so you'll actually see the debug output further then
> that fork and perhaps see what goes wrong there.

Thanks a lot! That helped me figure out the problem; it was something
to do with permissions for the cache file. I re-created it using
hald-generate-fdi-cache and everything worked fine.

Cheers,
Vinay