okay I had the problem with failed to initial Hal at startup. After reading many posts here is what i did to fix it:
in /etc/rc2.d/ I changed S12hal to S13hal using the following in terminal 'sudo mv /etc/rc2.d/S12hal /etc/rc2.d/S13hal' This was a fresh install of Gutsy RC1 64bit. -- Failed to initalize HAL. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25931 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
