[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#540506: hal breaks the whole system: connection refused

[Michael Biebl]

Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Sa, 08 Aug 2009, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> It seems, dbus is not running, meaning hal can't start.
> 
> Yes, but it *was* running, since it was *only* an update from hal
> and not of dbus.
> 
> On Sa, 08 Aug 2009, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Sorry, but whining about this in a "hal" bug report doesn't really help. I hope
>> you see that this has absolutely nothing to do with hal.
> 
> Still, it is a pain. HAL is so central that one would expect that
> before uploading to unstable a *serious* testing phase is done.

I've been running 0.5.13 for over a month now without a single problem.
There is only so much one can do to test. Implying that I didn't test the
package is, well, frustrating.

> BTW, code point: downgrading all hal packages to the previous version
> suddenly made everything work again fine.
> 
> The question is now how to debug that, unfortunately the fact that the
> hal massacre created an error on my filesystem made me think about 
> trice before reinstallation of that buggy version that started the 
> problem.

And what shall I do now? As I can't second guess what's going wrong on your
system and I can't reproduce the problem myself I have to rely on you to provide
the information. The current information is much too vague.


Michael

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