"failed to initialize HAL!"

[Frank McCormick]

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On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:32:06 +0000
john levin <john at technolalia.org> wrote:

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> 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.
> 

	Still fails after latest update. Feel free to file a bug :)
        My Grub menu still lacks its reverse video as well. Lost it weeks ago.

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Cheers

Frank

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