Kurt Roeckx wrote: > I was just doing a dist-upgrade from lenny to the current squeeze. > hal is failing to upgrade. I'm not really sure what happened > exactly, since it scrolled of my screen. > > I then tried to do "apt-get -f install", hoping that everything > would be fixed, or that I would get the same error message again. > But it seems some hald was started before, and the postinst > was trying to start hal again and it then hangs. I can see 2 > hald's running. Running /etc/init.d/hal stop olny stopped the > second one. I had to manually kill the first one. After this > it installed properly.
Can you reproduce the problem reliably? The old hald should be stopped in the prerm script, could you check if this is the case. Is there maybe a hal trigger activated in the middle of the upgrade which restarts hal? (a screen log would be helpful) Otherwise I don't see how hald could be running. Another interesting point is, why starting a second instance of hald is actually successful. I'm using start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --pidfile in the init script which should prevent a second instance from being started. Without more details I'm a bit at a loss here. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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