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

[Michael Biebl]

reassign 524714 splashy
thanks

Carl Fürstenberg wrote:
> 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

that's a splashy bug, reassigning.

You can purge the splashy package or wait for a fixed splashy package.

Michael

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