Package: hal Severity: important On an attempt to upgrade from etch to lenny, the upgrade hanged configure hal.
But *before* that it announced that it was unable to connect to dbus, complaining specifically about dbus-launch. Now, the crucial point is that dbus-x11 was not installed on the machine at the time. dbus-x11 provides the dbus-launch utility. After installing dbus-x11, hal installed just fine. Hal apparently needs to depend (or possibly pre-depend?) on dbus-x11. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.106 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.1.20-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii hal-info 20080215-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.20-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-1 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.1-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage1 0.5.10+git20080301-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal1 0.5.10+git20080301-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libsmbios1 0.13.13-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-9 userspace USB programming library ii libvolume-id0 0.114-2 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii mount 2.13.1-2 Tools for mounting and manipulatin ii pciutils 1:2.2.10-1 Linux PCI Utilities ii pm-utils 0.99.2-3 utilities and scripts for power ma ii udev 0.114-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii usbutils 0.73-7 Linux USB utilities Versions of packages hal recommends: ii eject 2.1.5-6 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer pn libsmbios-bin <none> (no description available) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
