Sounds like a dup of #37181 -- if you get this, does it really say that
hal has crashed, or that it 'failed to initialize hal'? Can you please
open a terminal and so
ps aux|grep dbus
and put the result here?
** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
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[Edgy]HAL crash on startup
https://launchpad.net/bugs/63471