Having just stumbled across the backports repositories ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports ) through the latest Kubuntu koffice updates I can now confirm that the hal update in their fixes my problems too!
Excellent work folks, my boot time is down over 20 seconds from 1:15 yesterday to 0:54 today. -- hal takes about 60 seconds to start up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/92647 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs