Package: acpid Version: 1.0.6-3 Severity: important Hi,
acpid installation fails in postinst if acpid is already running: denkbrett:~# apt-get install --reinstall acpid [...] Setting up acpid (1.0.6-3) ... Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: hald. Loading ACPI modules.... Starting Advanced Configuration and Power Interface daemon...invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing acpid (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: acpid E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) denkbrett:~# sh -x /var/lib/dpkg/info/acpid.postinst configure + set -e + case "$1" in + test -n '' + '[' -x /etc/init.d/hal ']' + invoke-rc.d hal stop Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: hald. + '[' -x /etc/init.d/acpid ']' + update-rc.d acpid defaults 12 88 ++ which invoke-rc.d + '[' -x /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d ']' + invoke-rc.d acpid start Loading ACPI modules.... Starting Advanced Configuration and Power Interface daemon...invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "start" failed. + exit 1 denkbrett:~# invoke-rc.d acpid start Loading ACPI modules.... Starting Advanced Configuration and Power Interface daemon...invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "start" failed. denkbrett:~# invoke-rc.d acpid stop Stopping Advanced Configuration and Power Interface daemon.... denkbrett:~# invoke-rc.d acpid start Loading ACPI modules.... Starting Advanced Configuration and Power Interface daemon.... denkbrett:~# echo $? 0 Cheers, Wolf -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.3 (PREEMPT) Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages acpid depends on: ii libc6 2.6.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip acpid recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]