Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: hal
If the account with uid 0 is not called "root" (this is sometimes
recommended for security reasons) hal does not start successfully, most
likely because the dbus policy file for hal says only the "root" and
"dbusdaemon" user may claim the nameThis is not a very common thing to
do but the failure mode was sufficiently ugly (the rest of the system
booted up to gdm, but Xorg found no input devices because it could not
connect to hal) it seemed worth reporting. Booting the system with gdm
disabled, logging in in text mode, renaming the uid 0 account back to
root, starting hal, renaming it back to something else, and then
starting gdm did work. This was an intrepid system, but I do not have
the exact version numbers involved available.
** Affects: hal (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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hal does not start with the root account renamed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382081
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