Good news guys, I fixed it! Fixing the init scripts I saw that klogd was blocking the booting process. I googled for "starting kernel daemon" and came here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/150006
Simply changing something on ldap.conf solved my problem. I'm on a ldap/AD managed lan. Rebooted and voilĂ , the init process came to gdm. I was wrongly thinking that it could be an hal/dbus problem because I removed the S11klogd script, which seemed to be bad. Anyway thinking that it was a ldap timeout problem was really hard! thanks. -- Failed to initalize HAL. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25931 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs