Thanks for the quick reply. That's unfortunate, as HAL is still required by the Adobe Flash plugin for playing DRM-protected video.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > Am 14.07.2015 um 14:35 schrieb Karsten Sperling: > > Package: hal > > Version: 0.5.14-8 > > Severity: normal > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > After upgrading from wheezy to jessie, hald fails to start from systemd, > > and also when trying to run it manually for debugging purposes. > > > > The problem seems to be caused by hald running "/sbin/udevadm info -r", > > which causes udevadm to output a usage message and fail with exit code 2. > > On wheezy the same command prints "/dev" and completes without error (on > a > > different machine). > > Please uninstall and purge the hal/libhal* package. It's no longer > needed and won't see further updates. It has been removed from the > Debian archive since Jessie. > > > > Michael > -- > Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the > universe are pointed away from Earth? > >
