Hi y'all, This bug happened here too. It causes apt-get upgrade to fail to upgrade all x-server drivers. dpkg --configure hal fails with the same message you described. I also found that even manually invoking hald fails immediately. using top, i found that there are two processes of user haldaemon : hald and hald-addon-acpi. I then did 'killall hald', and after that, "dpkg --configure hal" worked like a charm. (i also killalled the addon-acpi, but it was already gone).
As to your enumerated solutions, 1 is arbitrary, there doesn't seem a real advantage to either choice, 3 and 4 are not sufficient, and 2 kills something, so i like 2 best, but don't see why it should depend on location of pidfile. Happy New Year, Siward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
