Different system here, but probably the same problem:
brederode:/home/brederode# uname -r 2.6.24-16-generic brederode:/home/brederode# apt-get install hal Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: gnome-device-manager Recommended packages: libsmbios-bin The following NEW packages will be installed: hal 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/420kB of archives. After this operation, 1769kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously deselected package hal. (Reading database ... 136397 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking hal (from .../hal_0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu7_i386.deb) ... Setting up hal (0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu7) ... * Reloading system message bus config... ...done. * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing hal (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: hal E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) brederode:/home/brederode# /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no --version HAL package version: 0.5.11rc2 brederode:/home/brederode# /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes 23:45:01.453 [I] hald.c:669: hal 0.5.11rc2 23:45:01.454 [I] hald.c:734: Will not daemonize 23:45:01.454 [I] hald_dbus.c:5381: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-ALLY8jv8Jz,guid=7a5b0e331b55403c71fd09804813a25d 23:45:01.460 [E] ck-tracker.c:367: Error doing GetSeats on ConsoleKit: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success 23:45:01.460 [E] ck-tracker.c:792: Could not get seats and sessions 23:45:01.461 [W] hald_dbus.c:5806: Could not initialize seats and sessions from ConsoleKit Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/lib/hal:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin' 23:45:01.473 [I] hald_runner.c:301: Runner has pid 10667 23:45:01.473 [I] hald_runner.c:182: runner connection is 0x80a70f0 23:45:01.474 [W] osspec.c:373: Unable to open /proc/mdstat: No such file or directory [WARN 10664] polkit-error.c:143:polkit_error_get_error_message(): error != NULL Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace *** [DIE] hald.c:main():785 : Could not init PolicyKit context: (null) There is a Hauppauge 150 on the PCI, for which the driver stopped working since i upgraded the kernel to Ubuntu Hardy Testing about one or two weeks ago. Because of the occurring HAL problem i put 'blacklist ivtv' in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and restarted the computer, but it did not help. brederode:/home/brederode# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Host Bridge (rev a4) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 LPC Bridge (rev a6) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce3 SMBus (rev a4) 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 1.1 (rev a5) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 1.1 (rev a5) 00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 USB 2.0 (rev a2) 00:05.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Ethernet (rev a5) 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Audio (rev a2) 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce3 IDE (rev a5) 00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 AGP Bridge (rev a4) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:05.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) 01:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) 01:07.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3512 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01) 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] Trying a clean install now on spare partition using debootstrap. -- Hardy Heron hardware abstraction layer HALD hangs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207389 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
