[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#473052: Bug#473052: Missing dependency: hal needs to depend on dbus-x11?

[Michael Biebl]

tags 473052 moreinfo
thanks

Nathanael Nerode schrieb:
> Package: hal
> Severity: important
> 
> On an attempt to upgrade from etch to lenny, the upgrade hanged 
> configure hal.
> 
> But *before* that it announced that it was unable to connect to dbus, 
> complaining specifically about dbus-launch.
> 
> Now, the crucial point is that dbus-x11 was not installed on the machine
> at the time.  dbus-x11 provides the dbus-launch utility.  After 
> installing dbus-x11, hal installed just fine.
> 
> Hal apparently needs to depend (or possibly pre-depend?) on dbus-x11.

Hi Nathanael,

the hal system daemon does not need dbus-launch (or by that means
dbus-x11). What it needs, is a running dbus system bus.
Could you investigate, if you have a running "dbus-daemon --system"
instance, when you get the hal upgrade error.
If this is the case, please check if you have disabled the dbus init
script, or if the dbus init script failed to start during the upgrade.

Cheers,
Michael

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