This was simply because hal is not running. Did you happen to manually
stop/disable it? Can you please give me the output of
ps aux|egrep 'hal|dbus'
Does it work after
sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal start
?
** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
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[apport] hal-device-manager crashed with DBusException in __call__()
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99362
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