[Bug 62990] HAL fails to initialize / hal-device-manager not working

[Antti Koskinen]

Public bug reported:

When logging to Gnome desktop, a popup window appears every time with
the text "Internal error. Failed to initialize HAL!". This is on a fresh
install AMD64 Edge Beta on an ASUS A6Km notebook. Dapper never had this
problem.

I found a similar bug report which suggested the problem is related to
smbfs /cifs entry in fstab. I don't have any entries like that.

Strange thing is that hal daemon seems to be running just fine. I have
processes for hald, hald-runner,  hald-addon-acpi, hald-addon-keyboard
and hald-addon-storage. I also tried adding --verbose=yes --use-syslog
to DAEMON_OPTS in /etc/default/hal. That produced lots of debugging info
in /var/log/daemon.log, but I couldn't find anything related to this
problem.

I'm not sure if this is related, but Device Manager also does not work.
If I run hal-device-manager from the command line, the following error
is displayed:

<gtk.Menu object (GtkMenu) at 0x2b0a32f209b0>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hal-device-manager", line 20, in ?
    DeviceManager()
  File "/usr/share/hal/device-manager/DeviceManager.py", line 77, in __init__
    lambda *args: self.gdl_changed("DeviceAdded", *args))
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/_dbus.py", line 291, in connect_to_signal
    self._obj.connect_to_signal(signal_name, handler_function, dbus_interface, **keywords)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/proxies.py", line 151, in connect_to_signal
    path=self._object_path,
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/_dbus.py", line 179, in add_signal_receiver
    named_service = bus_object.GetNameOwner(named_service, dbus_interface='org.freedesktop.DBus')
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/proxies.py", line 25, in __call__
    ret = self._proxy_method (*args, **keywords)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/proxies.py", line 102, in __call__
    reply_message = self._connection.send_with_reply_and_block(message, timeout)
  File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 455, in dbus_bindings.Connection.send_with_reply_and_block
dbus_bindings.DBusException: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Hal': no such name

** Affects: hal (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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HAL fails to initialize / hal-device-manager not working
https://launchpad.net/bugs/62990