[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#561505: hal: Fails to upgrade

[Kurt Roeckx]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.13-6
Severity: serious

Hi,

I was just doing a dist-upgrade from lenny to the current squeeze.
hal is failing to upgrade.  I'm not really sure what happened
exactly, since it scrolled of my screen.

I then tried to do "apt-get -f install", hoping that everything
would be fixed, or that I would get the same error message again.
But it seems some hald was started before, and the postinst
was trying to start hal again and it then hangs.  I can see 2
hald's running.  Running /etc/init.d/hal stop olny stopped the
second one.  I had to manually kill the first one.  After this
it installed properly.


Kurt