can't upgrade, reinstall or remove hal
I'm currently in an upgrade loop related to Hal. Anything I try to do
to Hal gives me something like the following. I found there might have
been a problem with Splashy that was just fixed but trying to upgrade it
doesn't make a difference. I have reloaded all the packages in limbo
without any change.
TIA for any help!
Paul Scott
Preparing to replace hal 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-1 (using
.../archives/hal_0.5.11-8_i386.deb) ...
* Stopping Hardware abstraction layer
hald
[ OK ]
invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
* Stopping Hardware abstraction layer
hald
[ OK ]
invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/hal_0.5.11-8_i386.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
* Starting Hardware abstraction layer
hald
[ OK ]
invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/hal_0.5.11-8_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting configuration.
Errors were encountered while processing:
hal
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