I'm with Jürgen on this, so I did some more research. After reading bugs #227838 and #25931, it could be related to the fact that gdm has been moved from priority 13 to 30 in rc2.d, so that HAL can start before gdm. But kdm still has priority 13. And we use kdm.
I have an (Clonezilla-created) image I've installed on about 200 PCs, at first Gutsy, then upgraded to Hardy: r...@xxxx07:/etc/rc2.d# ls -l *kdm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-04-11 14:36 S13kdm -> ../init.d/kdm r...@xxxx07:/etc/rc2.d# lsb_release -d Description: Ubuntu 8.04.2 I'm going to change the priority of kdm to 30 and hope it helps... -- kio_media's HAL backend dying https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284956 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs