Bug#624398: xserver-xorg: postinst script wants to invoke-rc.d hal on GNU/kFreeBSD, but there is no more /etc/init.d/hal

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

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?
> 
Bring the init script back, or give us another way to restart hal if
it's running.

Cheers,
Julien