Unable to start 'hald' service FreeBSD 10.1- RELEASE

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Kartik Javali

Hi,
I am using FreeBSD 10.1- RELEASE version. The first thing I wanted to do was to install Xorg, so I did # pkg install xorg, the install went smooth. After the install was complete, I did following settings in my /etc/rc.conf file:
Code: 
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
Then I tried to run the services by typing the following:
# service hald start
It gave me following error:
Code: 
Shared Object "libexpat.so.1" not found, required by "libpolkit.so.2"
What am I missing? how to overcome this problem?
 
Code: 
pkg which /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.1  
/usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.1 was installed by package expat-2.1.0_2
Which is required by sysutils/policykit
Code: 
pkg which /usr/local/lib/libpolkit.so.2
/usr/local/lib/libpolkit.so.2 was installed by package policykit-0.9_8
And sysutils/hal need this as a library dependency. So my guess is that sysutils/hal is not installed. Try pkg info -e sysutils/hal && echo "installed" so check this.


-- Edit --
But as stated above, you do not need it to run Xorg.
 
Thanks tobik and hukadan, I ran

# pkg info xorg-server | grep HAL

It returned HAL is OFF so I realized that I do not need hald running..

I went ahead and performed:
# Xorg - configure

then I copied the config file using below:
# cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then I ran below command:
# Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro

I was able to get black and grey screen successfully.
 
Hi again,

I am not even sure you need a xorg.conf. You should first try without it and only if it does not work without, use one.
 
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