[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#480552: fails to stop hald on upgrade...

[Loïc Minier]

On Wed, May 14, 2008, Bruce Sass wrote:
> >  This bug is now closed with the new dpkg; could you upgrade and
> > confirm you still have the hal bug?
> 
> I can confirm the hal package fails to configure (via dpkg-reconfigure) 
> if /var/run/hal/hald.pid is missing. [the hal bug, imo]

 Well it can happen that the missing pid files confuses hal: if you
 attempt to start hal a second time because stop didn't find the pid
 file and hence didn't find hal, it's normal that the second instance
 may not be able to launch.  The bug is that the pid file is absent in
 this case IMO, and this could well be fixed by the dpkg upgrade.

 So I suggest you clean up things manually (reboot will clear up
 things) and see whether you encounter the bug again with the new dpkg.

   Thanks,
-- 
Loïc Minier