[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#480694: hal: Error message - HAL failed to start - confirmed

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hi!

I can confirm this:

shambala> /etc/init.d/dbus stop
Stopping network connection manager: NetworkManager.
Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: hald.
Stopping DHCP D-Bus daemon: dhcdbd.
Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.
Stopping system message bus: dbus.
shambala> /etc/init.d/dbus start
Starting system message bus: dbus.
Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.
Starting DHCP D-Bus daemon: dhcdbd.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldinvoke-rc.d: initscript hal, 
action "start" failed.
Starting network connection manager: NetworkManager.

shambala> apt-cache depends hal | cut -d: -f2 | grep -v "^hal$" | 
COLUMNS=72 xargs dpkg -l
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| 
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Beschreibung
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  adduser        3.107          add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus           1.2.1-2        simple interprocess messaging system
ii  eject          2.1.4-3        ejects CDs and operates CD-Changers 
under Li
un  gnome-device-m <keine>        (keine Beschreibung vorhanden)
ii  hal-info       20080508-1     Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi files
ii  libc6          2.7-10         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3    1.2.1-2        simple interprocess messaging system
ii  libdbus-glib-1 0.74-2         simple interprocess messaging system 
(GLib-b
ii  libexpat1      1.95.8-3.4     XML parsing C library - runtime library
ii  libgcc1        1:4.3.0-3      GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.16.3-2       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage 0.5.11~rc2-1   Hardware Abstraction Layer - shared 
library
ii  libhal1        0.5.11~rc2-1   Hardware Abstraction Layer - shared 
library
ii  libsmbios-bin  0.12.1-3       Provide access to (SM)BIOS 
information -- ut
ii  libsmbios1     0.13.13-1      Provide access to (SM)BIOS 
information -- dy
ii  libstdc++6     4.3.0-3        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4   2:0.1.12-5     userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0  0.114-2        libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base       3.1-23.2etch1  Linux Standard Base 3.1 init script 
function
ii  mount          2.13.1.1-1     Tools for mounting and manipulating 
filesyst
ii  pciutils       1:2.2.4~pre4-1 Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils       1.1.0-1        utilities and scripts for power 
management
ii  udev           0.114-2        /dev/ and hotplug management daemon
ii  usbutils       0.72-7         USB console utilities

Output of 

strace -o /tmp/strace-hald.txt -fF hald

attached.

shambala> cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.25.3-tp42-toi-3.0-rc7 (martin at shambala) (gcc version 
4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-5)) #1 PREEMPT Tue May 13 22:11:05 CEST 2008

This is a showstopper for all applications that use hal do detect 
insertion of removable media (like Digikam).

Ciao,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA  B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
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