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 -- hal does not start with the root account renamed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382081 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