Your message dated Tue, 20 May 2014 06:52:10 +0000
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and subject line Bug#747662: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #480552,
regarding fails to stop hald on upgrade...
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480552: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=480552
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Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
...which causes dpkg to err out, halting the upgrade process. Since
neither dpkg or upgrading explicitly depends on hal, its failure is
breaking unrelated software/processes.
Investigation reveals that /var/run/hal/hald.pid has disappeared, but
hald is still running. Manually recreating the PID file then
re-attempting to configure hal gets me the same result, specifically:
$ ps aux
...
111 1949 0.0 0.3 4964 1972 ? Ss May09 0:01 /usr/sbin/hald
...
$ cat > /var/run/hal/hald.pid
1949
[ctrl-d]
$ dselect
...
running dpkg --pending --configure ...
Setting up hal (0.5.11-1) ...
Reloading system message bus config...done.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldinvoke-rc.d: initscript hal,
action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
hal
dpkg --configure returned error exit status 1.
Press <enter> to continue.
$ ps aux
...
111 1949 0.0 0.3 4964 1972 ? Ss May09 0:01 /usr/sbin/hald
...
$ ls -l /var/run/hal
total 0
Most likely we are being bitten by a start-stop-daemon bug and you may
want to see how the exim Maintainer worked around the problem. IIRC,
you can not assume that start-stop-daemon (perhaps via invoke-rc.d)
will actually stop the process! s-s-d will send the signal, but it is
up to you to ensure the process has actually stopped before attempting
to restart it if starting will fail when the process is already running.
Note: on this system (1GHz PIII, 512M RAM) /usr is an NFS mount, which
is pretty much the only difference between it and the two other
systems where hal upgrades cleanly.
"killall hald" then "dpkg --configure --pending" works around
the problem.
- Bruce
P.S.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldinvoke-rc.d: initscript hal,
should be
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: hald
invoke-rc.d: initscript hal,
i.e., you are missing a newline char somewhere
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-onegee (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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 0.73-7 Linux USB utilities
Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii eject 2.1.5-7 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
pn libsmbios-bin <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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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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