Hello,
tried the update-rc.d stuff but no joy for me the problem has been there
since install (amd64, tribes 5, alternative install)
I get these errors when I aptitude safe-upgrade, looks like the
postinstall script is borked some how will poke at it when I get the
chance and post my finding.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages have been automatically kept back:
linux-image-generic linux-restricted-modules-generic ttf-dejavu
The following packages have been kept back:
evince gimp gimp-data gimp-print gimp-python gnome-app-install libgimp2.0
linux-headers-generic pidgin pidgin-data poppler-utils tracker
tracker-search-tool xsane xsane-common
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
gnome-power-manager gnome-session hal hal-device-manager network-manager
ubuntu-desktop update-notifier
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up hal (0.5.9.1-1ubuntu7) ...
* Reloading system message bus config...
[ OK ]
* Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald
invoke-rc.d:
initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-power-manager:
gnome-power-manager depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-power-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-session:
gnome-session depends on gnome-power-manager; however:
Package gnome-power-manager is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-session (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hal-device-manager:
hal-device-manager depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hal-device-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager:
network-manager depends on hal (>= 0.5.7.1); however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of update-notifier:
update-notifier depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing update-notifier (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop:
ubuntu-desktop depends on gnome-power-manager; however:
Package gnome-power-manager is not configured yet.
ubuntu-desktop depends on gnome-session; however:
Package gnome-session is not configured yet.
ubuntu-desktop depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
ubuntu-desktop depends on hal-device-manager; however:
Package hal-device-manager is not configured yet.
ubuntu-desktop depends on update-notifier; however:
Package update-notifier is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
hal
gnome-power-manager
gnome-session
hal-device-manager
network-manager
update-notifier
ubuntu-desktop
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up hal (0.5.9.1-1ubuntu7) ...
* Reloading system message bus config...
[ OK ]
* Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald
invoke-rc.d:
initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of update-notifier:
update-notifier depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing update-notifier (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop:
ubuntu-desktop depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
ubuntu-desktop depends on update-notifier; however:
Package update-notifier is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager:
network-manager depends on hal (>= 0.5.7.1); however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hal-device-manager:
hal-device-manager depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hal-device-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-power-manager:
gnome-power-manager depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-power-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-session:
gnome-session depends on gnome-power-manager; however:
Package gnome-power-manager is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-session (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
hal
update-notifier
ubuntu-desktop
network-manager
hal-device-manager
gnome-power-manager
gnome-session
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
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failed to initialize HAL! (Gutsy 2007-07-18 i386)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/126810
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