I just got the "Internal error: failed to initialize HAL" dialog again. My version of Ubuntu and kernel:
$ lsb_release -dsc Ubuntu 6.10 edgy $ uname -r 2.6.17-11-generic Florent Mertens wrote: > The best is to simply restart gnome. Login out of the gnome session and logging in shows the message "Internal error: failed to initialize HAL" again! What do you mean by restarting gnome? Below I did a hal debug as described in the 2nd part of this wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices. $ sudo killall hald hald: no process killed $ sudo hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes 2>&1 | tee hal.log >>> see attachment <<< $ sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal start * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald [ ok ] Then I logged out and in again, this solves the problem since the error dialog is gone and running the following command returns: $ ps -A | grep hald 4565 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi 4581 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb 4590 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 4592 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 6666 ? 00:00:02 hald 6667 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner 6673 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi 6684 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb 6693 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor 6695 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor ** Attachment added: "hal debug log" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6647574/hal.log -- failed to initialize HAL : gdm init script priority should be at least equal to dbus one https://launchpad.net/bugs/81670 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
