HAL problem!

[cherryfinals]

Thanks for the feedback, Jonas. 

Just for a lark, I killed both the HAL services with Ksysguard and restarted. 

Everything is back to normal. 

I'm still scratching my head and trying to find out what is causing this erratic behavior. 

Stan

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--- On Tue, 11/11/08, Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: HAL problem!
> To: cherryfinals at yahoo.com, "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 3:19 PM
> 2008/11/11 cherryfinals <cherryfinals at yahoo.com>:
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > HAL is still not loading.
> >
> > One last bit of info:
> >
> > 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
> 
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