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

[Oliver Burger]

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