Package: halevt Severity: important halevt fails to install properly. Console output from aptitude is as follows:
---- fs@zhenghe ~ $ sudo aptitude -R install halevt The following NEW packages will be installed: halevt libboolstuff-0.1-0{a} 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/101 kB of archives. After unpacking 451 kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package libboolstuff-0.1-0. (Reading database ... 81449 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libboolstuff-0.1-0 (from .../libboolstuff-0.1-0_0.1.12-3_amd64.deb) .... Selecting previously deselected package halevt. Unpacking halevt (from .../halevt_0.1.6.2-1.4_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for install-info ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up libboolstuff-0.1-0 (0.1.12-3) ... Setting up halevt (0.1.6.2-1.4) ... adduser: Warning: The home directory `/var/lib/halevt/' does not belong to the user you are currently creating. Adding user halevt to group plugdev dpkg: error processing halevt (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 100 configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: halevt E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up halevt (0.1.6.2-1.4) ... dpkg: error processing halevt (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 100 Errors were encountered while processing: halevt fs@zhenghe ~ $ -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages halevt depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0 1.5.39 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.16.0.3 Debian package management system ii hal 0.5.14-6 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in pn libboolstuff-0.1-0 <none> (no description available) ii libc6 2.13-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.8-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.92-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal1 0.5.14-6 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2+b1 GNOME XML library ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii passwd 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-3 change and administer password and halevt recommends no packages. halevt suggests no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org