[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#469528: apt dist-upgrade fails on package hal

[Chris Tracy]

Hi there,

I hit the same bug.  To answer your questions:

 > Could you check your hal init script, if you have those checks there?

Yes, I have the checks as well.

 > Could you also check, if dbus is *not* running but
 > /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket is existent (which should never  
happen
 > though).

Here is the current status of my system:

# apt-get dist-upgrade
...
Setting up system-tools-backends (2.4.2-1) ...
Reloading system message bus config...Failed to open connection to  
system message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/ 
system_bus_socket: Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed.
Starting System Tools Backends: system-tools-backends.
...
Errors were encountered while processing:
hal
gnome-power-manager
gnome-mount
gnome-volume-manager
sound-juicer
gnome-desktop-environment
gnome
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

...

# ls -l /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-03-07 09:46 /var/run/dbus/ 
system_bus_socket

# ps auxwww|grep dbus
root      9775  0.0  0.0   3120   704 pts/1    R+   16:19   0:00 grep  
dbus

# ps auxwww|grep hal
root      9777  0.0  0.0   3116   700 pts/1    R+   16:19   0:00 grep  
hal

I will try not to reboot so if you need me to check anything else,  
just let me know.

Thanks,
-Chris