On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 08:30:41PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > I was just doing a dist-upgrade from lenny to the current squeeze. > > hal is failing to upgrade. I'm not really sure what happened > > exactly, since it scrolled of my screen. > > Aren't apt-get/aptitude logged to /var/log?
So /var/log/apt/term.log contains: Setting up dbus (1.2.16-2) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/dbus ... Installing new version of config file /etc/dbus-1/system.conf ... Installing new version of config file /etc/dbus-1/session.conf ... Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: hald. Stopping system message bus: dbus. Starting system message bus: dbus. Starting Hardware abstraction layer: hald. Setting up libudev0 (149-1) ... Setting up udev (149-1) ... [...] Setting up libhal1 (0.5.13-6) ... Setting up libhal-storage1 (0.5.13-6) ... [...] Setting up hal-info (20091130-1) ... Setting up hal (0.5.13-6) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf ... Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/hal ... usermod: user haldaemon is currently logged in Reloading system message bus config...done. Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldinvoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing hal (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org