2012/1/21 Pascal Terjan <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 00:28, Pierre Jarillon <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have burn a DVD and make a fresh install in french. >> >> At the end of installation, I have asked yes for the updates. >> The bunch of hdlists was installed, bu nothing was updated. >> >> After the reboot, any urpmi fails with "Daemon HAL (hald) not ready or >> available" (free translation) >> >> I have manualy downloaded hal and its dependances (crypsetup, usbutils, hal- >> info, lib64hal1, lib64crypsetup4) and start hald. Then update was possible >> for more than 300 rpm. >> >> Upgrade from a previous alpha release seems to have no problem because hal is >> already installed. >> >> I thought that hal was no longer needed... Am I wrong? > > It is still used by urpmi to search cd drive :(
This is also a bug in the error message. You also get this message, when you have _no_ repos configured (not even a local cd or dvd) instead of saying "You have to configure your repos first". Oliver
