[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#469528: postinst fails when upgrading (Connection refused)

[Robert Millan]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.10-5
Severity: serious

postinst fails when upgrading from etch:

[...]
S'est configurant hal (0.5.10-5) ...
Reloading system message bus config...Failed to open connection to system message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldinvoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: s'ha produt un error en processar hal (--configure):
 el subprocs post-installation script retorn el codi d'eixida d'error 1

I didn't stop dbus previous to the upgrade, or do anything special.  Maybe it
should just tollerate this error and proceed?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.105            add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                    1.1.2-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                20071212-2       Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6                   2.7-6            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.1.2-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.74-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1               1.95.8-4         XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3-20080202-1 GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.6-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1         0.5.10-5         Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                 0.5.10-5         Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios1              0.13.10-1        Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6              4.3-20080202-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4            2:0.1.12-9       userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0           0.114-2          libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                3.1-24           Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount                   2.13.1-1         Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                1:2.2.10-1       Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils                0.99.2-3         utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev                    0.114-2          /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                0.73-5           Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                         2.1.5-6    ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
pn  libsmbios-bin                 <none>     (no description available)

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