Am 28.04.2011 09:10, schrieb Julien Cristau: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 03:01:32 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > >> Package: xserver-xorg >> Version: 1:7.6+6 >> Severity: normal >> >> trying to install xserver-xorg on this kFreeBSD system failed in the >> postinst script (attached) when trying to "invoke-rc.d hal restart". >> >> I was able to push through without hal by prefixing that line of >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xorg.postinst with a ": " >> >> But i'm not sure what the right thing to do is to really resolve the issue. >> >> /usr/share/doc/hal/changelog.Debian.gz notes that the hal maintainer >> removed the init script several months ago. >> >> Any thoughts on what the right thing to do is?
The right thing to do is making Xorg stop using hal on !linux.
>>
> Bring the init script back, or give us another way to restart hal if
> it's running.
The hal init script will not be re-introduced.
If you want to see how hal handles (re)starting hald on upgrades, check the
postinst script, I basically does
get_pid() {
[ -n "$1" ] || return 0
dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus --print-reply \
/org/freedesktop/DBus
org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionUnixProcessID \
string:$1 2>/dev/null | awk '/uint32/ {print $2}'
}
# restart hald if it was running before
pid=$(get_pid org.freedesktop.Hal)
if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
kill $pid 2>/dev/null || true
lshal >/dev/null || true # will trigger through D-Bus activation
fi
The last step (triggering a hald start via D-Bus activation).
It was initially added for applications which used a buggy approach to check if
hald was running and disabled themselves otherwise, i.e. they didn't trigger a
D-Bus activation request.
All affected packages I know of have been fixed.
Michael
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