hal-device-manager crashes with an import error

[dafloyd]

Binary package hint: hal

Dell D420

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 11 00:51:24 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/hal-device-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: hal-device-manager 0.5.8.1-4ubuntu9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/hal-device-manager
ProcCwd: /home/dessl
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/hal-device-manager']
SourcePackage: hal
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/hal-device-manager", line 13, in <module>
     import Const
 ImportError: No module named Const
Uname: Linux d420 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[William Grant (wgrant)]

It seems that the latest build of the package hasn't had all the instances of ${prefix} in it replaced with /usr. This renders it entirely unusable.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

looks like the build script inserted a literal '${prefix}' for @DATADIR@
in tools/device-manager/hal-device-manager.in