Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: hal
Hald segfaults when trying to start up on my platform (a Freescale
i.MX51 based Babbage platform). I rebuilt with debug enabled, and
tracked the problem to deferencing a garbage pointer in
hald/linux/devices.c:leds_add(). A proposed fix is attached, but I
don't know much about the internals of hald, so in should be sanity-
checked by someone who understands the details.
The patch at least allows hald to start up stably enough so that e.g.,
Xorg will run.
Details
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Source package is hal (0.5.12~rc1+git20090120-0ubuntu1)
Architecture is armel
+ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04
+ apt-cache policy hal
hal:
Installed: 0.5.12~rc1+git20090120-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 0.5.12~rc1+git20090120-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 0.5.12~rc1+git20090120-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://ports.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
500 http://vmware-ubuntu-hardy-davem.cambridge.arm.com. jaunty/main Pacs
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Here's what happens when hald tries to start:
+ dpkg --pending --configure
Setting up hal (0.5.12~rc1+git20090120-0ubuntu1) ...
* Reloading system message bus config...
...done.
* Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald
invoke-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
** Affects: hal (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Segfault in hald startup (hald/linux/devices.c)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322798
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