elmo# apt-get install ivman Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libcdio6 cups-pdf Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: hal pmount Suggested packages: gnome-device-manager cryptsetup The following NEW packages will be installed: hal ivman pmount 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 172 not upgraded. Need to get 832kB of archives. After unpacking 2163kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Get:1 http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/main hal 0.5.10-4 [686kB] Get:2 http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/main pmount 0.9.16-4 [84.9kB] Get:3 http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/main ivman 0.6.14-3 [61.0kB] Fetched 832kB in 1s (531kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package hal. (Reading database ... 99613 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking hal (from .../archives/hal_0.5.10-4_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package pmount. Unpacking pmount (from .../pmount_0.9.16-4_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package ivman. Unpacking ivman (from .../ivman_0.6.14-3_i386.deb) ... Setting up hal (0.5.10-4) ... Reloading system message bus config...done. Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldinvoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing hal (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up pmount (0.9.16-4) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ivman: ivman depends on hal; however: Package hal is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing ivman (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: hal ivman E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) elmo#