I've had the same problem on 2 machines after upgrading from breezy. A fresh install on an AMD Athlon 1700 went ok and seems to be running well with 2.6.16-26-k7, but the fresh install of Dapper on the laptop - Intel Sonoma, running a 386 kernel still gets the dbus or HAL error messages, and won't recognise USB drives. If I resart dbus, avahi-daemon, hald and dbus shut down ok, then dbus, hald restart, but avahi-daemon takes ages in its attempt to restart, and eventually times out, and I've lost my desktop, both Gnome, AND xfce4. I can't find a user hal or haldaemon in the usual newbie user utility. Where do I look for such users on a console?
-- hal-device-manager does not load https://launchpad.net/bugs/31517 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
