Logout issue in Zen

[ongoto]

I have an intermittent issue with Zen when I log out.  I get the login screen but the mouse and keyboard fail to respond.  I have to power off the machine to reboot and all is well again.

This happened when I first installed Zen.  I did some configuring, tried to log out/in and ran into this issue.  Since that one time it hasn't occurred until last night.  I haven't been able to reproduce the problem at will, but it may have something to do with the hostname.  I made some changes and the hostname was one of them.

Has anyone else had this issue?

[melodie]

Yes, I had an issue like this in my main Openbox install yesterday. And I had it once a while, along with other little annoying issues I fixed on the fly.

I looked in the file ~/.xsession-errors, and found a message related to dbus and freedesktop.hal-something. I looked at the web, and saw the answer in big letters all along the google search page : HALD.

I restarted hal, and the problem is gone. We do have a problem with hal, that hangs once a while, and hal is now deprecated, being replaced by udisks.

Your issue may be related or not related to hal as what I met with, anyhow that information can eventually help.

To restart hal:

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$su
passwd
# /etc/init.d/haldaemon restart
Yesterday I got "FAIL" at the first action, which is "stop", and "OK" at the second action of the restart which is "start" : this showed me that hal was not previously started.

If someone has an idea to fix it anyhow, I'd be interested.


PS: the exact message error was "Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files"

This message copied to google search brings back posts containing messages such as "hald gives Error doing GetSeats on ConsoleKit "

As I had met with haldeamon hang issues, I thought restarting it would to the trick, and it did (If I just type "shutdown" or "reboot" as user, it works, but maybe because I put my user login in the group wheel).