dapper->hardy upgrade dbus reload fails

[Michael Vogt]

Binary package hint: hal

During a dapper->hardy upgrade, the following error occured (I got a conffile prompt before, this might be releated):

[72.1738] hal: Configuring hal
n^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf ...^M
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.^M
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:^M
        LANGUAGE = (unset),^M
        LC_ALL = (unset),^M
        LANG = "en_DK.UTF-8"^M
    are supported and installed on your system.^M
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").^M
 * Reloading system message bus config...^M
Failed to open connection to system message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused^M
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed.^M
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.^M
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:^M
        LANGUAGE = (unset),^M
        LC_ALL = (unset),^M
        LANG = "en_DK.UTF-8"^M
    are supported and installed on your system.^M
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").^M
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald^M
invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.^M
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):^M
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2^M

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The output of sh -xv on the failing script:

+ set -e
+ case "$1" in
+ getent passwd haldaemon
+ getent group powerdev
+ getent group plugdev
+ chown haldaemon:haldaemon /var/run/hal
+ '[' -x /etc/init.d/dbus ']'
+ invoke-rc.d dbus force-reload
 * Reloading system message bus config...
Failed to open connection to system message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed.
+ true
+ dpkg --compare-versions '' le-nl 0.5.8.1-3ubuntu7
+ '[' -x /etc/init.d/hal ']'
+ update-rc.d hal start 24 2 3 4 5 . stop 16 1 .
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_DK.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
++ which invoke-rc.d
+ '[' -x /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d ']'
+ invoke-rc.d hal start
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald
invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
+ exit 1
['/bin/sh', '-x', '/var/lib/dpkg/info//hal.postinst', 'configure']

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Here is also omething in the preinst that gives a warning/error about arguments, not sure what its about:

[37.8875] hal: Preparing hal
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/udev/rules.d/90-hal.rules ...^M
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.^M
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:^M
        LANGUAGE = (unset),^M
        LC_ALL = (unset),^M
        LANG = "en_DK.UTF-8"^M
    are supported and installed on your system.^M
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").^M
Undefined argument in option spec^M
Package `dhcdbd' is not installed and no info is available.^M
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,^M
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.^M
 * Stopping Hardware abstraction layer hald^M
   ...done.^M
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal ...^M
rm: cannot remove `/usr/share/doc/hal': Is a directory^M
rm: cannot remove `/usr/share/doc/libhal-storage1': Is a directory^M
Unpacking replacement hal ...^M

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I looked briefly into this issue and it seems like a dbus restart fixes it and hal is happy again. Not sure if this is a real solution give the side-effects that has.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Michael confirmed that with the latest hal not restarting itself from a dapper upgrade this is fixed.