[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#542772: hal: HAL deamon locks computer on boot, needs powercycling to recover

[Adam John Trickett]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


When init.d starts hald the computer stops dead and cannot
be booted. A power cycle is required to restart the machine.
It is only possible to use the computer with hald disabled.

The problem has happened on the 2.6.26 and 2.6.30 kernels.
When running the 2.6.18 kernel I can start hald, though it
does take an age to start.

This is only happening on an old Dell Inspiron 3500 notebook,
my more modern systems seem perfectly happy.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  acl          2.2.47-3                    Access control list utilities
ii  adduser      3.110                       add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit   0.3.0-3                     framework for defining and trackin
ii  dbus         1.2.16-2                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info     20090716-1                  Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6        2.9-23                      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.2.16-2                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib 0.82-1                      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1    2.0.1-4                     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1      1:4.4.1-1                   GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.20.4-1                    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-stora 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1      0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libpolkit2   0.9-4                       library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libsmbios2   2.0.3.dfsg-1                Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6   4.4.1-1                     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13                 userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id 0.141-1                     libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base     3.2-23                      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount        2.15.1~rc1-1                Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils     1:3.1.3-2                   Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils     1.2.5-4                     utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  policykit    0.9-4                       framework for managing administrat
ii  udev         0.141-1                     /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils     0.84-1                      Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-6 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  libsmbios-bin   2.0.3.dfsg-1             Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa

Versions of packages hal suggests:
pn  gnome-device-manager          <none>     (no description available)

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