[Mageia-dev] HAL daemon required for Mageia 2 alpha 3

Sat Jan 21 10:57:23 CET 2012

2012/1/21 Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com>:
+> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 00:28, Pierre Jarillon <jarillon at abul.org> wrote:
+>> I have burn a DVD and make a fresh install in french.
+>>
+>> At the end of installation, I have asked yes for the updates.
+>> The bunch of hdlists was installed, bu nothing was updated.
+>>
+>> After the reboot, any urpmi fails with "Daemon HAL (hald) not ready or
+>> available" (free translation)
+>>
+>> I have manualy downloaded hal and its dependances (crypsetup, usbutils, hal-
+>> info, lib64hal1, lib64crypsetup4) and start hald. Then update was possible
+>> for more than 300 rpm.
+>>
+>> Upgrade from a previous alpha release seems to have no problem because hal is
+>> already installed.
+>>
+>> I thought that hal was no longer needed... Am I wrong?
+>
+> It is still used by urpmi to search cd drive :(
+
+This is also a bug in the error message. You also get this message,
+when you have _no_ repos configured (not even a local cd or dvd)
+instead of saying "You have to configure your repos first".
+
+Oliver
+