I'm having the same problem. In my case it's Gutsy/i386 not a dist- upgrade but a simple upgrade from a previous verson of HAL.
Me thinks the Importance needs to go from "undecided" to "critical". Anytime yesterday would be fine. ;) I can't access peripherals (notably an external hard drive) and other packages are depending on HAL and therefore won't install. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: ekiga 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Setting up hal (0.5.9.1-1ubuntu9) ... * 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 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 kde-guidance-powermanager: kde-guidance-powermanager depends on hal; however: Package hal is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing kde-guidance-powermanager (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: hal gnome-power-manager hal-device-manager kde-guidance-powermanager Saving new apt-history status... E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ** Attachment added: "hal-related-crash-reports.tbz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9612424/hal-related-crash-reports.tbz -- package hal-device-manager 0.5.9.1-1ubuntu8 failed to install/upgrade: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146741 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs