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hal kaptuued my SID machine
Posted by ajt on Wed 22 Apr 2009 at 21:06
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I run a couple of Debian Sid systems in VM. Recently I ran a routine aptitude safe-upgrade on one and it all fell to bits. hal got it's self in a mess and I couldn't install or remove anything else via aptitude or dpkg. The virtual machine was not a happy bunny. Apparently it's a known problem with hal and splashy is an extra issue. I'm running up a new image now.

VMs are useful place to test things out and play. It's always better to see what's going on away from one's primary system.

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Re: hal kaptuued by SID machine
Posted by Anonymous (24.36.xx.xx) on Wed 22 Apr 2009 at 22:35
Recently ran into the same problem. I also ran into issues with X. Maybe the solution is to pin the two, at least until the issues are solved, if you want to try again.

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Re: hal kaptuued by SID machine
Posted by ajt (195.112.xx.xx) on Wed 22 Apr 2009 at 22:49
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Now I know about it, I'll be more careful, the first time it happens it's harder to prevent!

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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam

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