"--Rick Donahue--Failed to initialize HAL"

[Tony]

Rick wrote:
> 6/18/07
> Hey,
> I don't know, maybe since the last update, I get an internal error 
> message upon boot-up about the hardware abstraction layer of Ubuntu. 
> "Internal Error Failed To Initialize HAL". Now, I can't print, call up 
> the printing installment feature.. ( most hardware stuff, for those of 
> who know, you now what I mean). I'm running GNOME 2.18.1 and Ubuntu 
> 7.04. I have no idea what happened. At least I can still get on the 
> net.... Any suggestions?? I did just recently upgrade to SeaMonkey 
> version Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2.,  just as an added bonus of info....
> Thanks
>   
There maybe something here..

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/81670


Tony D