[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#496221: invalid group "haldaemon"

[Robert Millan]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-3
Severity: serious

Postinst failed while installing gparted (which dragged in hal):

S'està configurant hal (0.5.11-3) ...
chown: el grup no és vàlid: haldaemon:haldaemon
dpkg: s'ha produït un error en processar hal (--configure):
 el subprocés post-installation script retornà el codi d'eixida d'error 1

hal seems to assume incorrectly that group "haldaemon" exists.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser           3.110                  add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus              1.2.1-3                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info          20080508+git20080601-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6             2.7-13                 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.2.1-3                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.76-1                 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1         2.0.1-4                XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1           1:4.3.1-9              GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.16.5-1               The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1   0.5.11-2               Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1           0.5.11-2               Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios1        0.13.13-1              Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6        4.3.1-9                The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4      2:0.1.12-12            userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0     0.125-5                libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base          3.2-19                 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount             2.13.1.1-1             Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils          1:3.0.0-4              Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils          1.1.2.4-1              utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev              0.125-5                /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils          0.73-10                Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                       2.1.5+deb1-1 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  libsmbios-bin               0.13.13-1    Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa

Versions of packages hal suggests:
pn  gnome-device-manager          <none>     (no description available)

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