I'm still getting the same errors / problems other have mentioned, and I'm running the latest version of Dapper (fresh install, just installed it yesterday).
It hangs at boot after: Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald... [ ok ] Then says: Internal error Failed to Initialize HAL! After bootup "lshal" doesn't work, it says that HAL isn't running, but does work after I run: sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart Re-installing HAL isn't really a good solution, as uninstalling it will also remove ubuntu-desktop, and a few other (somewhat) crucial packages... Here are some of the versions of the software I'm running, they might prove useful: hal 0.5.7-1ubuntu18 hal-device-manager 0.5.7-1ubuntu18 dbus 0.60-6ubuntu8 dbus-1-utils 0.60-6ubuntu8 -- 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
