I just ran in to this today on a fresh Ubunutu Server 10.04.1 AMD64 install
fully patched.
Both my ~/.dbus directory and ~/.esd_auth were owned by root:root for some
reason.
I had not seen the thing about .esd_auth reported so I just wanted to
let you know. Maybe that will point to the componen
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: hal
Hardware Information applet crashed.
ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 9 19:38:27 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/hal-device-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: hal-device-manager 0.5.8.1-4
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://librarian.launchpad.net/6722876/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: "ProcMaps.txt"
http://librarian.launchpad.net/6722877/ProcMaps.txt
** Attachment added: "ProcStatus.txt"
http://librarian.launchpad.net/6722878/ProcStatus.txt
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