[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#523823: [hal] Upgrade of hal fails

[Christian Frommeyer]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-1
Severity: normal

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Hi all,

when upgrading hal recently I found the following on a quite up to date
sid system:

Setting up hal (0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-1) ...
usermod: no changes
 * Reloading system message bus config...
                                      [ OK ]
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald/usr/sbin/hald already running.

                                      [ OK ]
invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 hal

Looks like hal was not properly shut down before configuring...

Regards Chris

--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.28.7-mikkeli

Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  500 unstable        www.debian-multimedia.org
  500 unstable        ftp.de.debian.org
    1 experimental    ftp.de.debian.org

--- Package information. ---
Depends                    (Version) | Installed
====================================-+-================
libc6                       (>= 2.3) | 2.9-6
libdbus-1-3               (>= 1.0.2) | 1.2.12-1
libdbus-glib-1-2           (>= 0.78) | 0.80-3
libexpat1                (>= 1.95.8) | 2.0.1-4
libgcc1                 (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.3.3-7
libglib2.0-0             (>= 2.16.0) | 2.20.1-1
libhal-storage1      (>= 0.5.11~rc2) | 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-1
libhal1                  (>= 0.5.10) | 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-1
libpolkit2                  (>= 0.7) | 0.9-3
libsmbios2                           | 2.0.3.dfsg-1
libstdc++6                (>= 4.1.1) | 4.3.3-7
libusb-0.1-4           (>= 2:0.1.12) | 2:0.1.12-13
libvolume-id1           (>= 0.140-1) | 0.140-2
adduser                              | 3.110
pciutils                             | 1:3.1.2-3
usbutils                             | 0.73-10
udev                      (>= 0.125) | 0.140-2
dbus                       (>= 0.61) | 1.2.12-1
lsb-base                 (>= 3.2-14) | 3.2-22
hal-info               (>= 20070402) | 20090309-1
pm-utils                             | 1.2.5-1
mount                      (>= 2.13) | 2.13.1.1-1
policykit                   (>= 0.7) | 0.9-3
consolekit                  (>= 0.3) | 0.3.0-2
acl                                  | 2.2.47-2