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package hal 0.5.13-1ubuntu8 failed to install/upgrade: package hal is already installed and configured

Bug #447069 reported by Duncan Lithgow on 2009-10-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #541595: [Master] package failed to install/upgrade: package is already installed and configured. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	hal (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: hal

I was trying to install the nvidia driver (that failed) and for some reason apt must have decided that hal needed installing, which of course it already was... So this bug is probably just annoying and hopefully not a problem.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 9 11:18:41 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: package hal is already installed and configured
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: hal 0.5.13-1ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.41-generic
SourcePackage: hal
Title: package hal 0.5.13-1ubuntu8 failed to install/upgrade: package hal is already installed and configured
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote on 2009-10-09:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (62.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.gz Edit (12.5 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote on 2009-10-09:

This might be related to bug #447083 which happened about 5 minutes after this one.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2011-07-21:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 541595, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.