[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#480694: hal: Error message - HAL failed to start

[Mitch]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.107       add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         1.2.1-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                     20080508-1  Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6                        2.7-10      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.1-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.74-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                    1.95.8-4    XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                      1:4.3.0-4   GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.16.3-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1              0.5.11-1    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                      0.5.11-1    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios1                   0.13.13-1   Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6                   4.3.0-4     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-11 userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0                0.114-2     libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-12      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.13.1.1-1  Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                     1:3.0.0-3   Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils                     1.1.0-1     utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev                         0.114-2     /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                     0.73-8      Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                         2.1.5-7    ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  libsmbios-bin                 0.13.13-1  Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa

-- no debconf information

debian:/home/mitch# /etc/init.d/dbus start
Starting system message bus: dbus.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldinvoke-rc.d: initscript hal, 
action "start" failed.
Starting System Tools Backends: system-tools-backends.