[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#612132: Silently fails to start when /var/cache/hald is removed

[Robert Luberda]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.14-3
Severity: important

According to the section 5 of Filesystem Hierarchy Standard applications
must survive deletion of the files in /var/cache, however when /var/cache/hald
is removed, hal silently fails to start.

Regards,
robert

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (200, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/pdksh

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.112+nmu2  add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         1.2.24-4    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                     20091130-1  Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libblkid1                    2.17.2-9    block device id library
ii  libc6                        2.11.2-11   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.24-4    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.88-2.1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                    2.0.1-7     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.24.2-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1              0.5.14-3    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                      0.5.14-3    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-16 userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-27      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.17.2-9    Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                     1:3.1.7-6   Linux PCI Utilities
ii  udev                         164-4       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                     0.87-5      Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  consolekit    0.4.3-2                    framework for defining and trackin
ii  eject         2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-7.1 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  pm-utils      1.3.0-3                    utilities and scripts for power ma

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

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