[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#724963: Bug#724963: hal: lshal is completely dysfunctional

[Michael Biebl]

Am 30.09.2013 04:12, schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.14-8
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I've only noticed this late last week after my weekly Monday morning
> update of jessie but the lshal command has become dysfunctional.
> 
> When I try to execute lshal, there is no reply for a while (about 25
> seconds) and then it reports.
> 
>   $ lshal
>   *** [DIE] lshal.c:dump_devices():285 : Couldn't obtain list of devices
> 
> A second attempt after this returns the same error message immediately.
> 
> A glance through my /var/log/syslog shows:
> 
>   Sep 30 10:57:14 $hostname dbus[3525]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Hal' (using servicehelper)
>   Sep 30 10:57:14 $hostname acpid: client connected from 10344[108:114]
>   Sep 30 10:57:14 $hostname acpid: 1 client rule loaded
>   Sep 30 10:57:39 $hostname dbus[3525]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.Hal': timed out
>   Sep 30 10:58:03 $hostname dbus[3525]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Hal' (using servicehelper)
>   Sep 30 10:58:03 $hostname dbus[3525]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.Hal' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
> 
> Also, before the first invocation, hald is not running.  Before the
> second invocation it is.
> 
> My prime interest is not lshal itself but custom software that uses
> libhal to access information that is also shown by lshal.  Judging from
> the above, I would think that everything that still uses HAL may be
> affected.

Hal is completely dead and shouldn't be used anymore.
My guess is, that it is broken due to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=705489
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