Did you install Breezy (Ubuntu 5.10) or Dapper (6.06)? Can you please open a Terminal window and check that the command
pidof hald does not output anything? What does ps aux|grep dbus.*system print? (Use copy&paste). If you do sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart and log out and back in again, does it work afterwards? Thank you! ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- After update-HAL failed to initialize https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/37683 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs