From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: When I run an update and there is a new package of hal it installs all the packages and when it is working on the finishing up it freezes my workstation. I have to manually reboot. Now when I do a 'rpm -qa | sort' I see some of the packages it was updating with hal duplicated. right now I see: xmms-1.2.10-4 xmms-1.2.10-6 xmms-devel-1.2.10-4 xmms-devel-1.2.10-6 etc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.3.20-10 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum update 2. when there is a hal package 3. hard reboot Actual Results: system locks up. Expected Results: packages updated and old packages removed. Additional info: I don't think it has to do with yum.
Try downloading and installing the hal package with -Uvv. I suspect that you will find that the hang is occuring when the haldaemon process is restarted during package install. If so, that is a hal, not rpm/yum, problem. Is your machine hanging when haldaemon is restarted?
I will try this. It may take a little bit after the last update. But from what I saw with YUM it died when it was running the post script. Once my system is back online I will test this.
The daemon restart is what is done in %post. Reassigning to hal ...
Did you have hal-0.2.97.cvs20040819 installed before the upgrade? If yes, you need to manually kill the haldaemon before upgrading. 'pkill hald' as root will achieve this. For more information see http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-August/msg00785.html as this is a known issue with that version.
Btw, one way to resolve this may be to kill the hal daemon, erase all duplicates of the hal package (so you only have one left) and manually upgrade to the latest version of hal which 0.2.97.cvs20040901-1.
Since we haven't heard anything back for more than a week and I'm sure that the issues were caused by the bug mentioned that is already fixed I'm closing this bug.