[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#561505: workaround

[Siward de Groot]

Hi y'all,

This bug happened here too.
It causes apt-get upgrade to fail to upgrade all x-server drivers.
dpkg --configure hal fails with the same message you described.
I also found that even manually invoking hald fails immediately.
using top, i found that there are two processes of user haldaemon :
hald and hald-addon-acpi.
I then did 'killall hald',
and after that, "dpkg --configure hal" worked like a charm.
(i also killalled the addon-acpi, but it was already gone).

As to your enumerated solutions,
1 is arbitrary, there doesn't seem a real advantage to either choice,
3 and 4 are not sufficient,
and 2 kills something,
so i like 2 best,
but don't see why it should depend on location of pidfile.

Happy New Year,
Siward