distribution upgrade (from 7.04 to 7.10) crashes while trying to initialize hal

[Kris OMealy]

Binary package hint: update-manager

subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount)]

Complete set of logs provided. Setting the status to triaged

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

THe cause of the failure is:
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Setting up hal (0.5.9.1-6ubuntu5) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/udev/rules.d/95-hal.rules ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi ...
 * Reloading system message bus config...
   ...done.
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald
s ...
invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
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affecting to hal.

This bug has been reported a while ago, is it still an issue ?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!