I encountered this problem when upgrading from the latest etch to testing.
I was forced to ctrl-c the hal installation script, and then my
dist-upgrade would fail to continue.
The problem seems to be related to dbus. For some reason, running dpkg -i
dbus_1.1.2-1_i386.deb, and then re-running apt-get install hal seems to
have resolved the problem for me.
I was previously running dbus_1.0.2-1, and hal 0.5.8.1-6.
Attached is my console session with the apt-get upgrade command and the
resulting error messages that led me to think dbus was the issue.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install hal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
hal-info libsmbios-bin libsmbiosxml1
Suggested packages:
gnome-device-manager libsmbios-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
hal-info libsmbios-bin libsmbiosxml1
The following packages will be upgraded:
hal
1 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 157kB/937kB of archives.
After unpacking 1368kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://mirror.internode.on.net testing/main libsmbiosxml1 0.13.10-1
[55.2kB]
Get:2 http://mirror.internode.on.net testing/main libsmbios-bin 0.13.10-1
[102kB]
Fetched 157kB in 1s (116kB/s)
(Reading database ... 135533 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace hal 0.5.8.1-9 (using .../archives/hal_0.5.10-5_i386.deb)
...
Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: hald.
Removing obsolete conffile /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal ...
Unpacking replacement hal ...
Reloading system message bus config...Failed to open connection to system
message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket:
Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed.
Selecting previously deselected package hal-info.
Unpacking hal-info (from .../hal-info_20071212-2_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libsmbiosxml1.
Unpacking libsmbiosxml1 (from .../libsmbiosxml1_0.13.10-1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libsmbios-bin.
Unpacking libsmbios-bin (from .../libsmbios-bin_0.13.10-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up hal-info (20071212-2) ...
Setting up hal (0.5.10-5) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/udev/hal.rules ...
Reloading system message bus config...Failed to open connection to system
message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket:
Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: halddpkg: error processing hal
(--configure):
subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
Setting up libsmbiosxml1 (0.13.10-1) ...
Setting up libsmbios-bin (0.13.10-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
hal
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
