[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#792398: Bug#792398: hald fails to start

[Michael Biebl]

Am 14.07.2015 um 14:35 schrieb Karsten Sperling:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.14-8
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> After upgrading from wheezy to jessie, hald fails to start from systemd,
> and also when trying to run it manually for debugging purposes.
> 
> The problem seems to be caused by hald running "/sbin/udevadm info -r",
> which causes udevadm to output a usage message and fail with exit code 2.
> On wheezy the same command prints "/dev" and completes without error (on a
> different machine).

Please uninstall and purge the hal/libhal* package. It's no longer
needed and won't see further updates. It has been removed from the
Debian archive since Jessie.



Michael
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