[Bug 31517] Re: hal-device-manager does not load

[Tolan Blundell]

It seems that people shouldn't have to be manually creating and deleting
user accounts to get HAL working. I also have this problem and I'm happy
enough to fix it manually, but really the symptoms here should be fixed
as well as the original problem.

It takes about 10 minutes for my Dapper box to boot and once it does I
get no auto-mounting of USB and whatnot.

Some debug:

tolan at thome:~$ lshal
error: libhal_ctx_init: (null): (null)
Could not initialise connection to hald.
 Normally this mean the HAL daemon (hald) is not running or not ready.

tolan at thome:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart
Password:
 * Stopping Hardware abstraction layer hald                              [ ok ]
 * Stopping system message bus dbus                                      [ ok ]
 * Starting system message bus dbus                                      [ ok ]
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald

[ **Hangs here for ages** ]

run-parts: /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal exited with return code 2


It really strikes me that as a fix has been released for this but people are still having the problem that it's not fixed, so I'm going to be cheeky and re-open it, sorry..

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hal-device-manager does not load
https://launchpad.net/bugs/31517