Re: hald on NetBSD/i386 -- how?

[walt <w41ter%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 18:47 +0200, Ingolf Steinbach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> what is necessary for running hald (from 2008Q4) on NetBSD/i386 5.0 RC3? I 
> have:
> 
> hal-info-20081022nb1 FreeDesktop hardware abstraction layer (info subpackage)
> hal-0.5.11nb23      FreeDesktop hardware abstraction layer
> dbus-1.2.4.2nb2     Message bus system
> dbus-qt3-0.70       D-BUS Qt bindings
> dbus-glib-0.76      GLib bindings for the D-BUS message bus system
> policykit-0.9nb3    Framework for managing admin policies and privileges
> 
> but hald stops with the following error messages:
> 
> 18:19:07.479 [I] hald.c:669: hal 0.5.11
> 18:19:07.479 [I] hald.c:734: Will not daemonize
> 18:19:07.482 [I] hald_dbus.c:5381: local server is listening at
> unix:path=/var/run/hald/dbus-KPSBGYHPwH,guid=06180d28bdd7fb8b28e4171149cf9f7b
> 18:19:07.534 [E] ck-tracker.c:367: Error doing GetSeats on ConsoleKit:

I'm just trying to get all of this working on NetBSD too.  I'd say try
installing sysutils/consolekit and see what happens.