I too am having the problem of "Internal error Failed to Initialize HAL!" dialogue popping up each time I boot my comp.
I typed 'lshal' and got: lshal version 0.5.3 error: libhal_ctx_init: (null): (null) and when I used: "sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart" I got: * Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal: line 49: kill: (6367) - No such process [ ok ] * Stopping system message bus... [ ok ] * Starting system message bus... [ ok ] * Starting Hardware abstraction layer: run-parts: /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal exited with return code 1 -- hal-device-manager does not load https://launchpad.net/bugs/31517 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs