Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: hal

aptitude safe-upgrade (or any other apt-get/aptitude command) fails to
completely configure the system, due to this hal issue.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% dpkg -l hal
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                Version                             
Description
+++-===================================-===================================-======================================================================================
iF  hal                                 0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu5                 
Hardware Abstraction Layer


Manually running the problem code from /etc/init.d/hal:
$ sudo stat -c %d/%i / 
65025/2
$ sudo stat -Lc %d/%i /proc/1/root
65025/2


Manually running the exact line from /etc/init.d/hal with "set -x" on:
$ set -x
$ sudo test "$(stat -c %d/%i /)" != "$(stat -Lc %d/%i /proc/1/root 2>/dev/null)"
+ stat -c %d/%i /
+ stat -Lc %d/%i /proc/1/root
+ sudo test 65025/2 != 

This is a hardy machine, up to date as of 2008.03.30, upgraded from Gutsy:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% lsb_release -a             
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release:        8.04
Codename:       hardy

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 30 11:02:39 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: hal 0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 
PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/X11R6/bin
SourcePackage: hal
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-12-generic i686

** Affects: hal (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209266
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