[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#561505: hal: Fails to upgrade

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 08:30:41PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > I was just doing a dist-upgrade from lenny to the current squeeze.
> > hal is failing to upgrade.  I'm not really sure what happened
> > exactly, since it scrolled of my screen.
> 
> Aren't apt-get/aptitude logged to /var/log?

So /var/log/apt/term.log contains:
Setting up dbus (1.2.16-2) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/dbus ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/dbus-1/system.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/dbus-1/session.conf ...
Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: hald.
Stopping system message bus: dbus.
Starting system message bus: dbus.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: hald.
Setting up libudev0 (149-1) ...
Setting up udev (149-1) ...
[...]
Setting up libhal1 (0.5.13-6) ...
Setting up libhal-storage1 (0.5.13-6) ...
[...]
Setting up hal-info (20091130-1) ...
Setting up hal (0.5.13-6) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/hal ...
usermod: user haldaemon is currently logged in
Reloading system message bus config...done.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldinvoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1


Kurt