I am also seeing this message with one of the machines I upgraded today: (Sep 30/07)
P3/800 with 512M of RAM, and a Linksys wireless 802.11b USB network card The update seemed to go well until I rebooted and as soon as the Ubuntu splash screen status indicator went all the way to the right, the screen went totally black and the machine appeared to hang. Hitting <CTL><ALT><BS> repeatedly did not recover a command line prompt. I booted into the recovery mode kernel and verified the networking was working despite some ominous looking errors: Configuring network interfaces at76c503.c:2522 assertion dev->istate == INIT failed at76c503.c:1784 assertion dev->curr_bs1 == NULL failed Aside from that, I could ping sites ok, so I assume the network was ok. The real problem when I attempted an aptitude update/upgrade/dist-upgrade from the root command prompt. Trouble started with: * Reloading system message bus config... Failed to open connection to system message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory invoke_rc.d: Initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald invoke-rc.d initscript hal, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing hal (--configure). Supprocess post-installation script returned error status 2. dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hal-device-manager: hal-device manager depends on hal; However Package hal is not configured yet. dpkg: eror processing hal-device-manager (--configure): dependency problem - leaving unconfigured. The failed hald initialization hangs the system for about 5 minutes. Please let me know whatever tests you want me to run on the affected system to help resolve this. -- [gutsy] Failed to initialize HAL https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144044 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
