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

[Hugh]

I've had the same problem on 2 machines after upgrading from breezy.  A fresh install on an AMD Athlon 1700 went ok and seems to be running well with 2.6.16-26-k7, but the fresh install of Dapper on the laptop - Intel Sonoma, running a 386 kernel still gets the dbus or HAL error messages, and won't recognise USB drives.
If I resart dbus, avahi-daemon, hald and dbus shut down ok, then dbus, hald restart, but avahi-daemon takes ages in its attempt to restart, and eventually times out, and I've lost my desktop, both Gnome, AND xfce4.
I can't find a user hal or haldaemon in the usual newbie user utility.  Where do I look for such users on a console?

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