[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#579798: acpi-fakekey: "/etc/init.d/acpi-fakekey start" fails if acpi_fakekeyd is already running

[Sven Joachim]

Package: acpi-fakekey
Version: 0.136-1

When the acpi-fakekey package got installed (pulled in when upgrading
acpi-support from 0.133-2), I noticed an error message:

,----
| Richte acpi-fakekey ein (0.136-1) ...
| Starting acpi_fakekey daemon...failed (Could not start /usr/sbin/acpi_fakekeyd).
`----

It seems this happens because of two bugs:

- the old acpi-support (from 0.133-2) prerm script did not stop
  acpi_fakekeyd

- the acpi-fakekeyd initscript's start action is missing
  start-stop-daemon's --oknodo option and thus fails if acpi_fakekeyd is
  already running.

The second problem is easily fixable, I don't know what to do about the
first; maybe dhinstallinit -R would help, or manually stop acpi_fakekeyd
in the postinst on first-time installs.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-rc5-kms
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages acpi-fakekey depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

acpi-fakekey recommends no packages.

acpi-fakekey suggests no packages.

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