This threat has been quiet for a while but I'm hoping there's still people reading this.
I've got the same problem, obviously. This is what I've tried so far: - CONCURRENCY in /etc/init.d/rc was and is set to none - Renamed the S12hal to S13hal in /etc/rc2.d - "sudo update-rc.d -f dbus remove" and then "sudo update-rc.d dbus multiuser 12 20" as suggested by Alex Muntada (https://bugs.launchpad.net/~alex.muntada) - Reinstalled package "hal" - Tried "sudo dbus-daemon –system" and then "sudo dpkg-reconfigure hal" - "sudo mv /var/cache/hald/fdi-cache~ /var/cache/hald/fdi-cache" didn't work since there was no "/var/cache/hald/fdi-cache~" so I did the " sudo /usr/lib/hal/hald-generate-fdi-cache" instead - Used the command "sudo sysv-rc-conf" and checked the taps for hal for runlevels 2-5 as suggested in some other forum. - I even added an endline to /etc/fstab as suggested in some other place "ps -p $(< /var/run/dbus/pid)" gives ----> PID TTY TIME CMD 4574 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon Here are the current priorities of hal, dbus and dhcdbd $ ls -1 /etc/rc?.d/*hal /etc/rc1.d/K16hal /etc/rc2.d/S13hal /etc/rc3.d/S12hal /etc/rc4.d/S12hal /etc/rc5.d/S12hal $ ls -1 /etc/rc?.d/*dbus /etc/rc1.d/K20dbus /etc/rc2.d/S12dbus /etc/rc3.d/S12dbus /etc/rc4.d/S12dbus /etc/rc5.d/S12dbus $ ls -1 /etc/rc?.d/*dhcdbd /etc/rc0.d/K16dhcdbd /etc/rc1.d/K16dhcdbd /etc/rc2.d/S24dhcdbd /etc/rc3.d/S24dhcdbd /etc/rc4.d/S24dhcdbd /etc/rc5.d/S24dhcdbd /etc/rc6.d/K16dhcdbd -- 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