On Thu, 12 May 2011 02:28:27 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > If you install Clamav after HAL was installed, a file /var/run/clamav/ > freshclam.pid is created with root:haldaemon group:owner permissions and > the following error is generated after installation: "ERROR: Can't save > PID to file /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid: Permission denied" > > But if you install Clamav on a fresh squeeze without HAL installed, the > ownership of the same file is root:clamav instead, and Clamav does > produce this error.
Report it. HAL is still being installed so this can affect other people. > While the problem is really a small one, one can always change the owner > of the file, it shows that presence of HAL in the system might > potentially be root of unpredictable problems since some apps are > confused by its presence. And I can imagine that in some instances to > find the problem of the kind could be quite time consuming. That sounds a bit apocalyptic :-) I don't think so because in the end you can have problems with every single package installed on the system conflicting with specific parts of your setup. > So, I'm not sure yet, but at least for now I probably would prefer to > live without K3b. It's a pity though. It's a best burning app over > there. I hope K3b developers would remove this dependency soon. Again, HAL is being pulled as a hard requirement by many others packages, it's not K3B the only one that depends on it (for instance, "xfburn" also requires "hal"). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.12.10.20...@gmail.com