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 -- [Edgy]HAL crash on startup https://launchpad.net/bugs/63471