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

[Michael Biebl]

reassign 523823 splashy
forcemerge 523187 523823
thanks

Christian Frommeyer wrote:
> 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...

That's a bug in splashy, see

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523187

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