Bug#537251: xserver-xorg: Please, adjust it for chrooted environment

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

reassign 537251 hal
retitle 537251 hal: init script should handle chroot in restart as well as start
kthxbye

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 16:51:36 +0400, Vladimir Stavrinov wrote:

> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.4+3
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> When upgrade diskless workstation in chrooted environment, I've got error:
> 
> Setting up hal (0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2) ...
> Can't start Hardware abstraction layer - detected chrooted session failed!
> Setting up xserver-xorg (1:7.4+3) ...
> invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "restart" failed.
> dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> 
> 
> The best solution is check if there are chroot, but simplest and quick is in
> my patch.
> 
This should be done in the hal init script, not papering over it in
xserver-xorg.  The various checks in the "start" case should probably be
moved to the do_start function so they're applied in restart as well.

Cheers,
Julien