FYI, I tried another 'apt-get dist-upgrade' after this and here is
what happened...
(I am upgrading from 'etch' to 'unstable')
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# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
7 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up hal (0.5.10+git20080301-1) ...
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: hald
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At this point, things appeared to hang. It must have stayed here for
a couple of minutes...in the meantime, I checked whether 'hald' was
loaded, this is what I saw:
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# ps auxwww|grep hal
root 9802 0.3 2.9 33128 30532 pts/4 Ss+ 16:24 0:00 /usr/
bin/dpkg --status-fd 11 --configure hal gnome-power-manager gnome-
mount gnome-volume-manager sound-juicer gnome-desktop-environment gnome
root 9803 0.0 0.1 3844 1176 pts/4 S+ 16:24 0:00 /bin/
sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/hal.postinst configure 0.5.8.1-9
root 9831 0.0 0.1 3896 1256 pts/4 S+ 16:24 0:00 /bin/
sh /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d hal start
root 9847 0.0 0.1 3916 1292 pts/4 S+ 16:24 0:00 /bin/
sh /etc/init.d/hal start
root 9851 0.0 0.0 3704 952 pts/4 S+ 16:24 0:00 /usr/
sbin/hald
root 9852 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs 16:24 0:00
[hald] <defunct>
root 9879 0.0 0.0 3116 700 pts/2 R+ 16:28 0:00 grep
hal
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Eventually, something timed out and the 'apt-get' finished with these
messages:
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invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-power-manager:
gnome-power-manager depends on hal (>= 0.5.10-1); however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-power-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-mount:
gnome-mount depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-mount (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-volume-manager:
gnome-volume-manager depends on gnome-mount; however:
Package gnome-mount is not configured yet.
gnome-volume-manager depends on hal (>= 0.5.5.1); however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-volume-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sound-juicer:
sound-juicer depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing sound-juicer (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-desktop-
environment:
gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-power-manager (>= 2.20.1);
however:
Package gnome-power-manager is not configured yet.
gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-volume-manager (>= 2.17.0);
however:
Package gnome-volume-manager is not configured yet.
gnome-desktop-environment depends on sound-juicer (>= 2.20.1); however:
Package sound-juicer is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-desktop-environment (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome:
gnome depends on gnome-desktop-environment (= 1:2.20.2.2); however:
Package gnome-desktop-environment is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
hal
gnome-power-manager
gnome-mount
gnome-volume-manager
sound-juicer
gnome-desktop-environment
gnome
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Now the 'hald' zombie process is gone:
# ps auxwww|grep hal
root 9897 0.0 0.0 3120 704 pts/2 R+ 16:31 0:00 grep
hal
I still have a /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket as well:
# ls -l /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-03-07 09:46 /var/run/dbus/
system_bus_socket
Thanks,
-Chris
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