Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/33126 Comment: Seeing this with IBM ThinkpadA20m as of yesterday's Dapper updates, which upgraded: hal (0.5.6-4ubuntu4) to 0.5.7-1ubuntu1 hal-device-manager (0.5.6-4ubuntu4) to 0.5.7-1ubuntu1 Had not seen this error until these updates. pww