"failed to initialize HAL!"

[Frank McCormick]

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On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:51:37 +0000
john levin <john at technolalia.org> wrote:

> I have two laptops, one quite old, both running Ubuntu Dapper Flight  
> 4, fully updated via synaptic.
> 
> On the old laptop (it's circa 1998), after logging in I'm getting the  
> error
> "Internal error
> failed to initialize HAL!"
> 
> But this isn't happening on the newer laptop, which makes me think  
> that it is related to the hardware.
> 
> Nothing similar in Launchpad (although I can confirm
> https://launchpad.net/products/hal/+bug/29823
> on both laptops.)
> 
> Anyone else seen this? How can I go about debugging this? What info  
> would be useful for a bug report?
> 

   I posted here yesterday about the same problem on my Hewlett-Packard Vectra.
   The script ( which I believe is  /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal )
exits with error level 1 on my machine. I don't see anything however in the logs.

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Cheers

Frank

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