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

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Michael,

On Sa, 08 Aug 2009, Michael Biebl wrote:
> It seems, dbus is not running, meaning hal can't start.

Yes, but it *was* running, since it was *only* an update from hal
and not of dbus.

On Sa, 08 Aug 2009, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Sorry, but whining about this in a "hal" bug report doesn't really help. I hope
> you see that this has absolutely nothing to do with hal.

Still, it is a pain. HAL is so central that one would expect that
before uploading to unstable a *serious* testing phase is done.

BTW, code point: downgrading all hal packages to the previous version
suddenly made everything work again fine.

The question is now how to debug that, unfortunately the fact that the
hal massacre created an error on my filesystem made me think about 
trice before reinstallation of that buggy version that started the 
problem.

Best wishes

Norbert

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