I've been trying to figure out more about why hald hangs on start: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/92647
It seems that my problems with the 64 second hald hang on bootup are battery and thermal related with the kernel, modprobing battery takes a good 10-15 sec, thermal takes less but more than it should. If you look at my hald log from the above mentioned bug you can see that it hangs when handling battery and other ACPI events. I am running a vanilla 2.6.20.4 kernel, and I have this issue with that as well. -- Kernel 2.6.20-13 acpi bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96480 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs