Bug#340639: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#340639: Fails to upgrade: dbus start option does not exist anymore

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 01:50:12AM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I just upgraded to dbus 0.60-4 and also get this error.
> The reason is that the hal package is configured after dbus. The dbus
> postinst restarts the hal layer with the new already unpacked hal
> binary, but with an old /etc/default/hal config which still has the
> - --drop-privileges option.

Ah, so that causes it.. Thanks :) I

In an older dbus update, i've changes the init scripts so that errors
of stuff dbus starts aren't fatal anymore. Did this indeed work for you ?
Because in that case it's a cosmetical bug instead of a failure to upgrade (so
this bug can be downgraded to normal)

  Sjoerd
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