Comment 108 for bug 25931

I too have the same problem Kubuntu Hardy 2.6.24-4 kernel my error as follows on apt-get upgrade...

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
7 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up hal (0.5.10-5ubuntu5) ...
* Reloading system message bus config... Failed to open connection to system message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed.
polkit-auth: This operation requires the system message bus and ConsoleKit to be running
polkit-auth: AuthorizationAlreadyExists: An authorization for uid 107 for the action org.freedesktop.policykit.read with constraint '' already exists
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hwdb-client-common:
hwdb-client-common depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hwdb-client-common (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hwdb-client-kde:
hwdb-client-kde depends on hwdb-client-common; however:
Package hwdb-client-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hwdb-client-kde (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kde-guidance-powermanager:
kde-guidance-powermanager depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kde-guidance-powermanager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kubuntu-desktop:
kubuntu-desktop depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
kubuntu-desktop depends on hwdb-client-kde; however:
Package hwdb-client-kde is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kubuntu-desktop (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager:
network-manager depends on hal (>= 0.5.7.1); however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager-kde:
network-manager-kde depends on network-manager (>= 0.6.2); however:
Package network-manager is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager-kde (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
hal
hwdb-client-common
hwdb-client-kde
kde-guidance-powermanager
kubuntu-desktop
network-manager
network-manager-kde
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@stinkpad:~#

Hope this helps! Cary