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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