Tags: patch
Attached is a patch for the halevt initscript which checks for the
config file to exist before starting halevt. It only checks for the
default location where the Debian package installs the config file
(/etc/halevt/halevt.xml) but not the other places halevt allows to store
the config file ($HOME/.halevt and /usr/share/halevt) which I guess is
ok.
One note though: I was not able to reproduce the bug here with a fresh
install of halevt 0.1.5-3 on sid:
tklau...@krypton:~ % sudo apt-get install halevt
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
halevt
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/59.8kB of archives.
After this operation, 307kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package halevt.
(Reading database ... 109185 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking halevt (from .../halevt_0.1.5-3_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for readahead-fedora ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for install-info ...
Setting up halevt (0.1.5-3) ...
Creating a user 'halevt'...
adduser: Warning: The home directory `/var/lib/halevt' does not belong to the
user you are currently creating.
Starting halevt daemon: OK.
sudo apt-get install halevt 4.39s user 1.10s system 77% cpu 7.087 total
tklau...@krypton:~ %
Cheers, Tobias
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-rc5-tk.krypton (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages halevt depends on:
ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups
ii dpkg 1.15.5.6 Debian package management system
ii hal 0.5.14-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii libboolstuff-0.1-0 0.1.12-3 library for operating on boolean e
ii libc6 2.10.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.82-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libhal1 0.5.14-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libxml2 2.7.6.dfsg-2+b1 GNOME XML library
halevt recommends no packages.
halevt suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
Index: halevt-0.1.5/halevt-initscript
===================================================================
--- halevt-0.1.5.orig/halevt-initscript 2010-01-31 20:02:38.000000000 +0100
+++ halevt-0.1.5/halevt-initscript 2010-01-31 22:55:33.000000000 +0100
@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@
[ -e /etc/default/halevt ] && . /etc/default/halevt
halevt_start() {
- if [ "$START_DAEMON" = "yes" ]; then
+ if [ ! -e /etc/halevt/halevt.xml ]; then
+ log_warning_msg "Not starting halevt daemon; configuration file missing"
+ elif [ "$START_DAEMON" = "yes" ]; then
echo -n "Starting halevt daemon: "
start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE \
