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

[Michael Biebl]

Robert Millan wrote:
> 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?

hal.postinst contains:
    if [ -x /etc/init.d/dbus ]; then
      invoke-rc.d dbus force-reload || true
    fi

So it should ignore errors, when dbus is not running.

/etc/init.d/hal contains:

  start)
        if [ ! -d /proc/sys/fs/inotify ]; then
                log_failure_msg "Can't start $DESC - enable inotify
support in your kernel"
                exit 0
        fi
        if [ ! -e /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket ]; then
                log_failure_msg "Can't start $DESC - please ensure dbus
is running"
                exit 0
        fi
[..]

So we also check for a running dbus there.

Could you check your hal init script, if you have those checks there?
Could you also check, if dbus is *not* running but
/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket is existent (which should never happen
though).

Cheers,
Michael



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