Package: hal Version: 0.5.10-1 Severity: serious This is serious because dpkg fails to upgrade hal, since the init.d script exits with code 1. Here is what's going on:
piper$ sudo /etc/init.d/hal stop Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: hald. piper$ ps aux | grep hal piper$ sudo hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes [see attached file] piper$ echo $? 1 piper$ ps aux | grep hal madduck 16021 0.5 0.4 92204 10196 pts/13 S+ 13:12 0:00 /usr/bin/python -S /usr/bin/reportbug hal root 16092 0.0 0.0 20840 1208 pts/9 S 13:13 0:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event6 /dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event0 115 16097 0.0 0.0 17660 980 pts/9 S 13:13 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket root 16102 0.0 0.0 20836 1180 pts/9 S 13:13 0:00 hald-addon-storage: no polling because /dev/hda is locked via HAL root 16104 0.0 0.0 20840 1184 pts/9 S 13:13 0:00 hald-addon-storage: no polling because /dev/hdb is locked via HAL root 16145 0.0 0.0 20840 1180 pts/9 S 13:13 0:00 hald-addon-storage: no polling because /dev/sde is locked via HAL root 16147 0.0 0.0 20840 1176 pts/9 S 13:13 0:00 hald-addon-storage: no polling because /dev/sdf is locked via HAL root 16149 0.0 0.0 20840 1176 pts/9 S 13:13 0:00 hald-addon-storage: no polling because /dev/sdg is locked via HAL If I repeat the process, even more processes are left running. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.1.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii hal-info 20071011-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.1-3 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 1:4.2.2-3 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage1 0.5.10-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal1 0.5.10-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libsmbios1 0.13.10-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa ii libstdc++6 4.2.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-7 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 2.13-9 Tools for mounting and manipulatin ii pciutils 1:2.2.4-1.1 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 0.73-1 Linux USB utilities Versions of packages hal recommends: ii eject 2.1.5-5 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer ii libsmbios-bin 0.13.10-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa -- no debconf information -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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