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

[Karsten Sperling]

Thanks for the quick reply. That's unfortunate, as HAL is still required by
the Adobe Flash plugin for playing DRM-protected video.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> 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
> --
> Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the
> universe are pointed away from Earth?
>
>
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