[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#494985: Fail to start at boot with "hald-probe-input: segfault at 8000000 in libc-2.10.2.so"

[Teodor MICU]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.14-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

For a couple of weeks (I think after the upgrade to .14 version) hal is printing
a segfault at boot every time I start/reboot the system:
| Starting Hardware abstraction layer: hald[  141.950790] hald-probe-inpu[2114]: segfault at 8000000 ip b775c089 sp bfa5b128 error 4 in libc-2.10.2.so[b76ec000+141000]
| [  141.967654] hald-probe-inpu[2117]: segfault at 8000000 ip b7622089 sp bf933db8 error 4 in libc-2.10.2.so[b75b2000+141000]
| [  141.969268] hald-probe-inpu[2118]: segfault at 8000000 ip b759a089 sp bff45f38 error 4 in libc-2.10.2.so[b752a000+141000]
| [  141.970855] hald-probe-inpu[2119]: segfault at 8000000 ip b775f089 sp bfe5b2d8 error 4 in libc-2.10.2.so[b76ef000+141000]
| [  141.972378] hald-probe-inpu[2120]: segfault at 8000000 ip b75f1089 sp bfb52f58 error 4 in libc-2.10.2.so[b7581000+141000]
| [  141.973880] hald-probe-inpu[2121]: segfault at 8000000 ip b7603089 sp bfe2d778 error 4 in libc-2.10.2.so[b7593000+141000]
| .

After the system is started, there is no problem to stop and start again 'hal'.
On restart it simply fails with no message (but this is probably another issue
related to the "set -e" directive in the script).

Thanks

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.112       add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         1.2.16-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                     20091130-1  Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libblkid1                    2.16.2-0    block device id library
ii  libc6                        2.10.2-2    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.16-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.82-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                    2.0.1-6     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.22.3-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1              0.5.14-1    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                      0.5.14-1    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-23      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.16.2-0    Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                     1:3.1.4-4   Linux PCI Utilities
ii  udev                         149-1       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                     0.86-2      Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  consolekit      0.4.1-2                  framework for defining and trackin
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-7 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  pm-utils        1.2.6.1-3                utilities and scripts for power ma

Versions of packages hal suggests:
ii  gnome-device-manager          0.2-3      GNOME device manager based on HAL

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