failed to initialize HAL

[Markus Lutzer]

A reboot did not help but the problem was an old option in the
configuration file /etc/default/hal . I removed it and now HAL does
start properly.

Chris Neary schrieb:
> I used to get this error a lot in previous incarnations of Ubuntu. As a
> naive basic user I thought a reboot would solve the problem.
>  
> Sadly, it did, and I never figured out the actual problem, which I'd
> like to have done. I think I put it down to a dodgy USB storage drive
> though and just replaced the device.
>  
> Chris
> 
>  
> On 02/06/06, *Markus Lutzer* <m.lutzer at gmx.de <mailto:m.lutzer at gmx.de>>
> wrote:
> 
>     I upgraded from Breezy to Dapper but now I get the message "internal
>     error. failed to initialize HAL!" every time I login to ubuntu. Any
>     ideas?
> 
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