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

[Pascal Terjan]

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 :(