[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#527738: fails to read properties from callout script

[martin f krafft]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/hal-get-property

I cannot get a property from a HAL callout script:

  + hal-get-property --udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port_logicaldev_input --key input.xkb.variant
  Could not initialise connection to hald.
  Normally this means the HAL daemon (hald) is not running or not ready.

HAL is started (or the callout wouldn't run), so the only
explanation I have is that HAL does not able to answer queries while
processing callouts. It seems hal-set-property has the --direct
option (not documented in the manpage) to work around this, but
hal-get-property does not recognise that option.

How am I to read parameters from HAL during the execution of a HAL
callout script, if the standard user interface methods don't work?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  acl          2.2.47-2                    Access control list utilities
ii  adduser      3.110                       add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit   0.3.0-2                     framework for defining and trackin
ii  dbus         1.2.12-1                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info     20090309-1                  Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6        2.9-7                       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.2.12-1                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib 0.80-3                      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1    2.0.1-4                     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1      1:4.4.0-1~exp2              GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-1                    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-stora 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1      0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libpolkit2   0.9-3                       library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libsmbios2   2.0.3.dfsg-1                Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6   4.3.3-8                     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13                 userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id 0.141-1                     libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base     3.2-22                      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount        2.13.1.1-1                  Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils     1:3.1.2-3                   Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils     1.2.5-2                     utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  policykit    0.9-3                       framework for managing administrat
ii  udev         0.141-1                     /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils     0.73-10                     Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-6 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  libsmbios-bin   2.0.3.dfsg-1             Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa

Versions of packages hal suggests:
pn  gnome-device-manager          <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information


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