After upgrading from gutsy to hardy I experienced this problem of hald not starting and avahi-daemon also not starting. I redid the symlinks for hal (12->24) and gdm (13->30) but that didn't cure the problem.
Starting hald manually indicated that it was failing while trying to open /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket. In desperation I symlinked /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket to /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket. That seemed to cure my problem. I don't know why /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket is needed. -- 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
