[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#480694: invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "stop" failed.

[Drew Parsons]

On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 04:30 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> severity 523187 serious
> thanks
> Drew Parsons wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 03:58 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> Do you have splashy installed i.e. a file /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh?
> >>
> > 
> > Yes, it is (I don't think I have it configured fully, it doesn't show
> > any splash screen). 
> 
> This is a bug in splashy and not related to the original bug report.
> 
> see 523187
> 
> Michael
> 

Fantastic detective work, thanks Michael! I would never have thought of
looking at splashy.

Once I've purged splashy (dpkg -P), dbus, hal and everything else
complete their upgrades just fine.

Bloody splashy never even worked anyway.  Looks like I'm better off
without it.

Thanks again Michael.

Drew