HAL not initialized

[Luis Mondesi]

On Jan 6, 2008 5:04 AM, Ankur Jain <jainankur at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently upgraded my system with available updates (not sure which
> packages is causing the problem), but now whenever I boot my system
> receiving the following error:
>
> "Failed Initializing HAL and Configuration could not be loaded ".
>
> I looked on ubuntuforums, reinstalled HAL and DBUS as well, but it didnt
> help. Now, my external USB keyboard has also stopped working, not sure if
> it's due to the HAL error.
>
> Any idea?

Perhaps  /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf is wrong?

Here is mine:
http://pastebin.ca/850997

If I were you, I'd do this risky thing to fix it:

sudo telinit 1
sudo dpkg --force-all -P hal
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get install hal
sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart
exit

after that, your system should be back to normal. you might want to
reboot just to be kosher.

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