[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#540506: hal breaks the whole system: connection refused

[Michael Biebl]

Norbert Preining wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.13-2
> Severity: critical
> 
> Updating, or reinstalling 0.5.13-2 of the hal packages completely
> hoses my whole system:
> - keyboard is gone
> - /dev seems to be gone
> 
> When reinstalling I get:
> 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: error processing hal (--install)
> ...

It seems, dbus is not running, meaning hal can't start.
If hal is not running, X will not configure any input devices (that's arguably a
bug in Xorg).
So, as a first step, make sure, dbus is running. Then start hal.
If hal does not come up correctly, please run "hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes"
and attach the output to the bug report.

About the second point, /dev being going, it definitely doesn't look like a hal
problem.

Michael


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