I had exactly the same after few weeks of use of a fresh Gutsy install, with apparently no reason. I tried everything listed here and elsewhere: - concurrency set to "none" (this never changed) - reordered /etc/rc2.d/ levels (S12dbus and S13hal) - installed/reinstalled packages - reconfigured all packages
but still dbus was up, hald refused to start. Then I checked: less /etc/default/hal and output was DAEMON_OPTS= Then I changed it with: sudo nano /etc/default/hal into: DAEMON_OPTS=--retain-privileges then save, and rebooted. I'm not sure if the above tried procedures were somehow useful or just wasted time, but the problem is now solved. Hope this helps. -E- -- 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
