[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#524714: hal: Fails to upgrade; wrongfull return value from init scrupt

[Carl Fürstenberg]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-8
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Upon upgrade from 0.5.11-8 to /hal_0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2,
following problem occurs:

[0:0][azatoth at azabox ~]$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libdirectfb-1.0-0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  hal
Suggested packages:
  gnome-device-manager
The following packages will be upgraded:
  hal
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 175 not upgraded.
50 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/451kB of archives.
After this operation, 176kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
(Reading database ... 306530 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace hal 0.5.11-8 (using .../hal_0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2_i386.deb) ...
 * Stopping Hardware abstraction layer hald                                                                                  [ OK ] 
invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
 * Stopping Hardware abstraction layer hald                                                                                  [ OK ] 
invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/hal_0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald                                                                                  [ OK ] 
invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/hal_0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
[0:100][azatoth at azabox ~]$ sudo /etc/init.d/hal stop
 * Stopping Hardware abstraction layer hald                                                                                  [ OK ] 
[0:1][azatoth at azabox ~]$ echo $?
1
[0:0][azatoth at azabox ~]$ sudo /etc/init.d/hal start
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald                                                                                  [ OK ] 
[0:1][azatoth at azabox ~]$ echo $?
1
[0:0][azatoth at azabox ~]$ 



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to sv_SE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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        2.9-7                       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.2.12-1                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib 0.80-3                      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1    2.0.1-4                     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1      1:4.3.3-8                   GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-1                    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-stora 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1      0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios2   2.0.3.dfsg-1                Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6   4.3.3-8                     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13                 userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id 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     1:3.1.2-3                   Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils     1.2.5-2                     utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev         0.140-2                     /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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