Bug#550973: hald fails to start if /var/cache/hald doesn't exist (needed for fdi-cache)

Package: hal Version: 0.5.11-8 Severity: important Tags: patch The HAL Daemon will fail to start if the /var/cache/hald directory does not exist. Apparently, the HAL code doesn't attempt to automatically create the directory, but simply errors out and dies when it is unable to locate the /var/

Bug#540000: live-initramfs: can not mount /dev/loop0 (/live/image/live/filesystem.squashfs) on //filesystem.squashfs

Someone's gotten their knickers in a twist it seems. Anyways, I just ran into this myself, so I'll take a shot at providing some useful information. For starters, I'm hitting this bug when using the Xen LiveCD scripts, 0.8.2 from here: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/LiveCD My setup is somew