[Bug 15306] New: "Error: failed to initialize HAL" message on Gnome startup

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Ubuntu | hal

           Summary: "Error: failed to initialize HAL" message on Gnome
                    startup
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: i386
               URL: http://cl.naist.jp/~eric-n/
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: hal
        AssignedTo: martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: underspecified at gmail.com
         QAContact: desktop-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com
                CC: underspecified at gmail.com


Running the latest Breezy development release on a 3.20 GHz Pentium 4 with
Hyperthreading (kernel 2.6.12-8-686-smp),
I am greeted with an "Error: failed to initialize HAL" message every time I
start Gnome. This renders the system
incapable of automounting DVDs, USB keys and the like. I am able to work around
this problem by dropping to a console
and restarting the dbus service before loging into Gnome, which suggests that
dbus is not properly initializing during
system startup. There are no error reports in dmesg. Where is a good place to
start looking for more information on the
cause of this error?

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