[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#522608: hal: loosing keyboard settings, apparently not updating the cache

[Eduard Bloch]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-8
Severity: important

Forwarding Ubuntu bug 275825:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/hal/+bug/275825

I had very similar issue, only a

config/hal] couldn't initialise context: (null)/(null)

message and no clue what is going on. The hint from Martin helped, after
touch'ing the fdi file and restarting hal, it suddenly worked.

Regards,
Eduard.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.110        add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                        1.2.12-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                    20090309-1   Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6                       2.9-6        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.12-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.80-3       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                   2.0.1-4      XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.3.3-5    GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.20.0-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1             0.5.11-8     Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                     0.5.11-8     Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios2                  2.0.3.dfsg-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6                  4.3.3-5      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4                2:0.1.12-13  userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0               0.125-7      libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-22       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                       2.13.1.1-1   Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                    1:3.1.2-2    Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils                    1.2.4-2      utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev                        0.140-1      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                    0.73-10      Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-5 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  libsmbios-bin   2.0.3.dfsg-1             Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa

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

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