Public bug reported: Binary package hint: hal
Hello, I'm running a modified LTSP chroot where I installed the 'hal' package. When running apt-get dist-upgrade, upgrading will fail because of a call to /usr/bin/polkit-auth around line 44: # Allow hal to query the PolicyKit database to enforce privileges if ! /usr/bin/polkit-auth --user haldaemon --explicit | grep -q 'org.freedesktop.policykit.read'; then /usr/bin/polkit-auth --user haldaemon --grant 'org.freedesktop.policykit.read' fi This is the resulting error message: > polkit-auth: This operation requires the system message bus and ConsoleKit to be running Since I'm inside a chroot environment, the 'system message bus' and consolekit can't be running. Can you make upgrading a bit smoother, please? Here's the full aptitude log: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# LTSP_HANDLE_DAEMONS="false" LC_ALL=C aptitude dist- upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following partially installed packages will be configured: gnome-power-manager gnome-session hal network-manager network-manager-gnome update-notifier 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) Setting up hal (0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu5) ... polkit-auth: This operation requires the system message bus and ConsoleKit to be running polkit-auth: AuthorizationAlreadyExists: An authorization for uid 107 for the action org.freedesktop.policykit.read with constraint '' already exists 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 (>= 0.5.10); 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 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 network-manager-gnome: network-manager-gnome depends on network-manager (>= 0.6.5); however: Package network-manager is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing network-manager-gnome (--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 Errors were encountered while processing: hal gnome-power-manager gnome-session network-manager network-manager-gnome update-notifier E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up hal (0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu5) ... polkit-auth: This operation requires the system message bus and ConsoleKit to be running polkit-auth: AuthorizationAlreadyExists: An authorization for uid 107 for the action org.freedesktop.policykit.read with constraint '' already exists 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 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 network-manager-gnome: network-manager-gnome depends on network-manager (>= 0.6.5); however: Package network-manager is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing network-manager-gnome (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-power-manager: gnome-power-manager depends on hal (>= 0.5.10); 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 network-manager network-manager-gnome gnome-power-manager gnome-session Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done ** Affects: hal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- hal can't upgrade in chroot: polkit-auth call in postinst fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210748 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs