Your message dated Tue, 20 May 2014 06:52:10 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#747662: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #458069, regarding hald startup hangs to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: hal Version: 0.5.10-4 richard@deodand:~$ uname -a Linux deodand 2.6.18-5-xen-686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 3 04:02:16 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux richard@deodand:~$ sudo dpkg --configure --pending Setting up hal (0.5.10-4) ... Reloading system message bus config...done. Starting Hardware abstraction layer: hald Over in another terminal: richard@deodand:~$ ps -ef | grep hal root 12050 12049 0 12:11 ttyp0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/hal.postinst configure root 12077 12050 0 12:11 ttyp0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d hal start root 12093 12077 0 12:11 ttyp0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/hal start root 12097 12093 0 12:11 ttyp0 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/hald root 12098 12097 0 12:11 ? 00:00:00 [hald] <defunct> richard 12101 11814 0 12:12 ttyp3 00:00:00 grep hal richard@deodand:~$ sudo strace -p 12097 Process 12097 attached - interrupt to quit select(4, [3], NULL, [3], {218, 256000} <unfinished ...> Process 12097 detached richard@deodand:~$ sudo lsof -p 12097 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME hald 12097 root cwd DIR 8,1 4096 2 / hald 12097 root rtd DIR 8,1 4096 2 / hald 12097 root txt REG 8,1 291296 438274 /usr/sbin/hald hald 12097 root mem REG 8,1 154384 430281 /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3.12.1 hald 12097 root mem REG 8,1 83708 147661 /lib/i686/nosegneg/libnsl-2.7.so hald 12097 root mem REG 8,1 1368484 147655 /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc-2.7.so hald 12097 root mem REG 8,1 149328 147659 /lib/i686/nosegneg/libm-2.7.so hald 12097 root mem REG 8,1 213476 429642 /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0 hald 12097 root mem REG 8,1 651308 432026 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.1400.4 hald 12097 root mem REG 8,1 241360 432132 /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0.1400.4 hald 12097 root mem REG 8,1 110056 437747 /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2.1.0 hald 12097 root mem REG 8,1 117344 147471 /lib/ld-2.7.so hald 12097 root 0u CHR 3,0 1723 /dev/ttyp0 hald 12097 root 1u CHR 3,0 1723 /dev/ttyp0 hald 12097 root 2u CHR 3,0 1723 /dev/ttyp0 hald 12097 root 3r FIFO 0,6 172050 pipe hald 12097 root 4w FIFO 0,6 172050 pipe It looks like it's waiting for a pipe connected to itself to become readable. ttfn/rjk
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 0.5.14-8+rm Dear submitter, as the package hal has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/747662 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Ansgar Burchardt (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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