On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 00:28, Pierre Jarillon <jaril...@abul.org> wrote: > I have burn a DVD and make a fresh install in french. > > At the end of installation, I have asked yes for the updates. > The bunch of hdlists was installed, bu nothing was updated. > > After the reboot, any urpmi fails with "Daemon HAL (hald) not ready or > available" (free translation) > > I have manualy downloaded hal and its dependances (crypsetup, usbutils, hal- > info, lib64hal1, lib64crypsetup4) and start hald. Then update was possible > for more than 300 rpm. > > Upgrade from a previous alpha release seems to have no problem because hal is > already installed. > > I thought that hal was no longer needed... Am I wrong?
It is still used by urpmi to search cd drive :(