problem with hal-0.2.97.cvs20040823-1.i386.rpm

[Jeff Spaleta]

Anyone seen the haldaemon initscript from hal-0.2.97.cvs20040823-1.i386.rpm
taking a cup of coffee or longer length of time to return when run? 

The hanging happens at boot up if haldeamon is enabled
And by hand after bootup with haldaemon is disabled at boot up.

I've reverted back to hal-0.2.97.cvs20040819-1.i386.rpm  and I can't
reproduce the problem.

And here's the kicker.... if i have hal-0.2.97.cvs20040819 daemon
running when i try to install
hal-0.2.97.cvs20040823  the package install process stalls as well
since whatever  the post/pre (un)install script being activated in
that process makes a call to service haldaemon which hangs just like i
see at boot up with hal-0.2.97.cvs20040819 installed.  Very not
cool.... very not not cool when this happens during a yum update and
stopping yum leaving the system with duplicate packages installed
since yum's transaction didn't complete.

Anyone else seeing this? Before I dig into the script logic looking
for a smoking gun?

-jef