"failed to initialize HAL!"

[john levin]

On 28 Feb 2006, at 14:08, Frank McCormick wrote:

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> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:51:37 +0000
> john levin <john at technolalia.org> wrote:
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>> I have two laptops, one quite old, both running Ubuntu Dapper Flight
>> 4, fully updated via synaptic.
>>
>> On the old laptop (it's circa 1998), after logging in I'm getting the
>> error
>> "Internal error
>> failed to initialize HAL!"
>>
>> But this isn't happening on the newer laptop, which makes me think
>> that it is related to the hardware.
>>
>> Nothing similar in Launchpad (although I can confirm
>> https://launchpad.net/products/hal/+bug/29823
>> on both laptops.)
>>
>> Anyone else seen this? How can I go about debugging this? What info
>> would be useful for a bug report?
>>
>
>    I posted here yesterday about the same problem on my Hewlett- 
> Packard Vectra.
>    The script ( which I believe is  /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal )
> exits with error level 1 on my machine. I don't see anything  
> however in the logs.
>

Thanks for that - found your original emails. dmesg | grep -i hal  
produced nothing for me as well. Have you filed a bug? If not, I'll  
do so.

Thanks

John