*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 25931 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25931
Short story: I was not able to reproduce the bug. Long story: I did a clean install from Feisty Desktop beta CD onto a spare partition, and did not see the HAL bug. Same as yesterday. I backed that installation up. I did the 349 updates (from saved archives -- goes faster), and rebooted as directed: No HAL bug. Yesterday, I did get the HAL bug after the updates. I restored from backup, repeated the upgrade: same, no HAL bug before or after upgrade. I did a clean install from CD onto an entire spare disk: /var/run/dbus/pid and /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket were there, with correct owners and permissions. The parent directory /var/run/dbus was correctly owned by messagebus:messagebus. This directory was totally missing after yesterday's install from CD. Yesterday, after I manually created it and reconfigured dbus: sudo dbus-daemon –system sudo dpkg-reconfigure hal ... then the HAL bug went away. But I never saw it again today. -- Failed to initialize HAL https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106182 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber (via bug 25931). -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs