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and subject line Re: Bug#605146: hald does not start if /var/cache/hald does
not exist
has caused the Debian Bug report #605146,
regarding hald does not start if /var/cache/hald does not exist
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Package: hal
Version: 0.5.14-3
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 9.1.1
If the directory /var/cache/hald does not exist, as (for example) on every boot
if /var/cache is on a tmpfs, hald throws an error and fails to start. However,
if the directory exists but is empty, hald will start without complaint.
The FHS 4.3 section on /var/cache states in part that an application using a
data store in /var/cache "must be able to recover from manual deletion of these
files", which hald evidently does not do as regards the directory
/var/cache/hald itself.
A similar bug in apt (#523920) was fixed a few months ago.
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On 27.11.2010 22:29, Andrew Gainer wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.14-3
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 9.1.1
>
> If the directory /var/cache/hald does not exist, as (for example) on every
> boot if /var/cache is on a tmpfs, hald throws an error and fails to start.
> However, if the directory exists but is empty, hald will start without
> complaint.
>
> The FHS 4.3 section on /var/cache states in part that an application using a
> data store in /var/cache "must be able to recover from manual deletion of
> these files", which hald evidently does not do as regards the directory
> /var/cache/hald itself.
>
hald will regenerate the *files*, so closing
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