package acpid 1.0.6-9ubuntu8 failed to install/upgrade: failed to install because of some error

[Atreyufansrock]

Binary package hint: acpid

FAILED TO INSTALL.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 11 16:50:26 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: acpid 1.0.6-9ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: acpid
Title: package acpid 1.0.6-9ubuntu8 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we are unable to examine your VarLogDistupgrade log file as it is corrupted. Could you please manually add the log files in '/var/log/dist-upgrade' to this bug report? This will allow us to better determine what went wrong with this package installation.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Setting up acpid (1.0.6-9ubuntu8) ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh ...^M
acpid start/running, process 587^M
start: Unknown job: hal^M
invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.^M
dpkg: error processing acpid (--configure):^M
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1^M

[dino99 (9d9)]

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