ntfs-config crashed because /etc/hal/fdi/policy not found.

[champjss]

Binary package hint: ntfs-config

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 beta amd64 (with just installed, and already updated at September 14th 2010, 17.00 UTC). ntfs-config (currently version 1.0.1-3ubuntu5) crashed when it was starting. After I tried to call it via terminal, I saw this error message:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ntfs-config", line 102, in <module>
    main(args, opts)
  File "/usr/bin/ntfs-config", line 75, in main
    app = NtfsConfig()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/NtfsConfig/NtfsConfig.py", line 56, in __init__
    os.mkdir(HAL_CONFIG_DIR)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/hal/fdi/policy'

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ntfs-config 1.0.1-3ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 14 00:27:28 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ntfs-config
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.6 -OOt /usr/bin/ntfs-config
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/ntfs-config']
SourcePackage: ntfs-config
Title: ntfs-config crashed with OSError in __init__()
UserGroups:

[Rus F Adrian (tue-deactivatedaccount)]

For a temporaly fix you can manually create the directory "sudo mkdir -p /etc/hal/fdi/policy"

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #629246, so 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.