HAL problem!

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/11/11 cherryfinals <cherryfinals at yahoo.com>:
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> When I powered back up, HAL is still loaded, but sleeping and neither my CD'DVD drive nor my thumb drive is recognized.
>
> After that, I shut it down. Got some sleep and figured I'd start fresh this morning. After a clean power up this morning:
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> HAL is still not loading.
>
> One last bit of info:
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> AMD 64bit CPU running Kubuntu 8.04 and KDE 3.5.10
> The primary hard drive with the OS is 320Gb
> The secondary (data) drive is 500Gb
> Konqueror shows the primary drive mounted and I can see all the data on the data drive, but if I try to click the icon in Konq, it says 'only available with HAL'.
>
> Any more ideas or should I break down and do another total rebuild of my primary drive?
>
> Stan [the deeply frustrated]
>

I would try purge the hal packages and perhaps udev to and then
install them again. Try  to start hal from a console to see if it
gives any error and check the log and dmesg for errors.

/ Jonas