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

[Michael Biebl]

Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 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.

Can you reproduce the problem reliably?
The old hald should be stopped in the prerm script, could you check if this is
the case.
Is there maybe a hal trigger activated in the middle of the upgrade which
restarts hal? (a screen log would be helpful) Otherwise I don't see how hald
could be running.
Another interesting point is, why starting a second instance of hald is actually
successful.
I'm using start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --pidfile in the init script which
should prevent a second instance from being started.

Without more details I'm a bit at a loss here.

Michael

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