I had the same error, and hald was started in postinst as you say. But
having this in an upgrade is still bad form and should be avoided. (It
would also be cleaner if the lines in the usage statement were less than
80 characters long.) Thanks!
Setting up dbus (0.60-6) ...
Starting system message bus: dbus.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: /usr/sbin/hald: unrecognized
option `--drop-privileges'
usage : hald [--daemon=yes|no] [--verbose=yes|no] [--help]
--daemon=yes|no Become a daemon
--verbose=yes|no Print out debug (overrides HALD_VERBOSE)
--use-syslog Print out debug messages to syslog instead of
stderr.
Use this option to get debug messages if HAL runs
as
daemon.
--help Show this information and exit
--version Output version information and exit
The HAL daemon detects devices present in the system and provides the
org.freedesktop.Hal service through the system-wide message bus provided
by D-BUS.
For more information visit http://freedesktop.org/Software/hal
run-parts: /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal exited with return code 1
Setting up libgnomevfs2-common (2.12.2-5) ...
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