[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#554463: hal: updates fail

[Nigel Horne]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.13-3
Severity: normal

apt-get update fails. The problem list within
"dpkg --configure hal":

sh-4.0# dpkg --configure hal
Setting up hal (0.5.13-3) ...
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
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  hal


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  acl                       2.2.48-1       Access control list utilities
ii  adduser                   3.111          add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit                0.3.1-2        framework for defining and trackin
ii  dbus                      1.2.16-2       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                  20090716-1     Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libblkid1                 2.16.1-4       block device id library
ii  libc6                     2.10.1-5       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                 2.0.1-4+lenny1 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.22.2-2       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1           0.5.13-3       Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                   0.5.13-3       Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libpolkit2                0.9-4          library for accessing PolicyKit
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                     2.16.1-4       Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                  1:3.1.4-2      Linux PCI Utilities
ii  policykit                 0.9-4          framework for managing administrat
ii  udev                      146-6          /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                  0.86-2         Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-7 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  pm-utils        1.2.5-4                  utilities and scripts for power ma

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

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