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Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] restarting hal in xserver-xorg postinst?



Julien Cristau wrote:
> Hi,

Hi

> when installing the new xserver-xorg, people seem to run into the
> following problem: since hal isn't restarted, it doesn't pick up the
> callout installed by xserver-xorg to set input.xkb.*, so if people
> restart X without rebooting they end up with a us keymap.  So I'm
> wondering if it'd be ok to run 'invoke-rc.d hal restart' in
> xserver-xorg.postinst on upgrade (and probably initial install), or if
> there's a better way to fix this?

The hal package already has an dpkg file trigger for /usr/share/hal/fdi.
That means, hal will automatically be restarted, when the fdi file of
xserver-xorg is updated / freshly installed.

Cheers,
Michael

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