package hal-device-manager 0.5.9.1-1ubuntu8 failed to install/upgrade:

[pe3k]

Binary package hint: hal

Fails to upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 29 14:34:46 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Package: hal-device-manager 0.5.9.1-1ubuntu8
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: hal
Title: package hal-device-manager 0.5.9.1-1ubuntu8 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux qyx 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:31:23 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Scott Beamer (angrykeyboarder)]

I'm having the same problem. In my case it's Gutsy/i386 not a dist-upgrade but a simple upgrade from a previous verson of HAL.

Me thinks the Importance needs to go from "undecided" to "critical". Anytime yesterday would be fine. ;)

I can't access peripherals (notably an external hard drive) and other packages are depending on HAL and therefore won't install.

scott@scottbox:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  ekiga
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up hal (0.5.9.1-1ubuntu9) ...
 * Reloading system message bus config... [ OK ]
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-power-manager:
 gnome-power-manager depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-power-manager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hal-device-manager:
 hal-device-manager depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hal-device-manager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kde-guidance-powermanager:
 kde-guidance-powermanager depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kde-guidance-powermanager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 hal
 gnome-power-manager
 hal-device-manager
 kde-guidance-powermanager
Saving new apt-history status...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This does not generally happen, thus I need some more information. Please send the output of

  sudo sh -ex /var/lib/dpkg/info/hal.postinst configure 0.5.9.1-1ubuntu8

(enter it in a Terminal and cut&paste the output). Thank you!

[sandos (sandos)]

I am having this problem after a gutsy dist-upgrade from feisty. Attached is output from script when doing the above command

[sandos (sandos)]

After reading the hald manpage I tried gdb /usr/sbin/hald, attached is the output.

[sandos (sandos)]

Added --daemon=no to /etc/default/hal, and got some more info from the postinst script, attached is the output from that.

[sandos (sandos)]

workaround mentioned in this bug seems to work for me (though I did also chown haldaemon:haldaemon /var/cache/hald before, but that on its own did not seem to help)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/139155

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

Well, I had a similar problem, hald returning 1.
By doing: sudo hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
I have seen that it was stopping after a message saying that haldaemon group did not exist.
So I did: sudo groupadd haldaemon
Then things have begun to work from then.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Just curious if anyone has tested upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy Alpha and are able to still witness this issue? Thanks.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

hal-device-manager does not exist any more in hardy, it was removed upstream. gnome-device-manager is the replacement.