[SOLVED] failed to initialise HAL!

peeths003 · 12-24-2009, 06:44 AM

Hi ,

I am using Debian Lenny x86_64 .

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Peeths001:~# uname -a
Linux Peeths001 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 26 10:39:40 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Today I installed Samba, I restarted the machine . But there was no issues. and after that there was some security updates I installed the updates and after restarting I am getting the error message box after loggin in . The message is "Failed to Initialize HAL!".

ANd I dont have a network also now !!!!!! What is that it is going on ?

I also tried the below

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Peeths001:~# dpkg-reconfigure hal
Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: hald.
Reloading system message bus config...Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Failed to connect to socket /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldinvoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.

Peeths001:~# /etc/init.d/networking restart
Reconfiguring network interfaces...There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid 3006
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:1f:c6:c7:ad:8a
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:1f:c6:c7:ad:8a
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
done.

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Peeths001:~# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:c6:c7:ad:8a
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6024 (5.8 KiB) TX bytes:6355 (6.2 KiB)
Interrupt:253 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1040 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:1040 (1.0 KiB)

vboxnet0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0a:00:27:00:00:00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

peeths003 · 12-24-2009, 06:47 AM

My autologin is also not enabled. I googled it , but I am not able to find an appropriate solution . Please help .

peeths003 · 12-24-2009, 11:44 AM

Some one please help me on this ....................

peeths003 · 12-24-2009, 12:02 PM

more info

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Peeths001:~# dbus-daemon --system --print-address
unix

ath=/usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket,guid=f83f8cd77e84152b7f025e934b3469e5

Peeths001:~# dbus-monitor --system
signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=:1.2 serial=2 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameAcquired
string ":1.2"

after that I dont get the prompt

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Peeths001:~$ gksu network-admin

(network-admin:3414): Liboobs-WARNING **: Failed to connect to socket /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

(network-admin:3414): Liboobs-WARNING **: OobsSession object hasn't connected to the bus, cannot register OobsObject
process 3414: arguments to dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 3338.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace

peeths003 · 12-26-2009, 12:29 PM

any comments on this is greatly appreciated .

peeths003 · 01-01-2010, 01:12 AM

does it mean that , there is no solution for this issue ?

peeths003 · 01-01-2010, 01:16 AM

These are the only error messages that I get

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Peeths001:~# tail -25 /var/log/messages
Dec 31 12:07:00 Peeths001 kernel: [ 14.915459] Adding 2144636k swap on /dev/sda8. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2144636k
Dec 31 12:07:00 Peeths001 kernel: [ 15.303253] EXT3 FS on sda6, internal journal
Dec 31 12:07:00 Peeths001 kernel: [ 15.980022] loop: module loaded
Dec 31 12:07:00 Peeths001 kernel: [ 16.509062] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Dec 31 12:07:00 Peeths001 kernel: [ 16.509062] EXT3 FS on sda7, internal journal
Dec 31 12:07:00 Peeths001 kernel: [ 16.509062] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Dec 31 12:07:00 Peeths001 kernel: [ 16.537056] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Dec 31 12:07:00 Peeths001 kernel: [ 16.537056] EXT3 FS on sda5, internal journal
Dec 31 12:07:00 Peeths001 kernel: [ 16.537056] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Dec 31 12:07:00 Peeths001 kernel: [ 18.046692] r8169: eth0: link up
Dec 31 12:07:00 Peeths001 kernel: [ 19.471622] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Phenom(tm) 8450 Triple-Core Processor processors (3 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
Dec 31 12:07:00 Peeths001 kernel: [ 19.471622] powernow-k8: 0 : pstate 0 (2100 MHz)
Dec 31 12:07:00 Peeths001 kernel: [ 19.471622] powernow-k8: 1 : pstate 1 (1050 MHz)
Dec 31 12:07:01 Peeths001 kernel: [ 20.414081] NET: Registered protocol family 10
Dec 31 12:07:01 Peeths001 kernel: [ 20.414081] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Dec 31 12:07:01 Peeths001 kernel: [ 20.638840] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
Dec 31 12:07:01 Peeths001 kernel: [ 20.661421] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
Dec 31 12:07:04 Peeths001 kernel: [ 23.988366] VBoxDrv: dbg - g_abExecMemory=ffffffffa02e4360
Dec 31 12:07:04 Peeths001 kernel: [ 23.988366] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0xd61 offMax=0x2b78
Dec 31 12:07:04 Peeths001 kernel: [ 23.988366] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
Dec 31 12:07:04 Peeths001 dhcdbd: dbus_svc_init failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer Failed to connect to socket /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
Dec 31 12:07:04 Peeths001 dhcdbd: Failed to initialise D-Bus service.
Dec 31 12:07:09 Peeths001 kernel: [ 28.932233] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Dec 31 12:07:09 Peeths001 kernel: [ 29.196750] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
Dec 31 12:07:09 Peeths001 kernel: [ 29.196941] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 173.14.09 Wed Jun 4 23:40:50 PDT 2008

any solution for this ?

I also tried

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Peeths001:~# apt-get install dhcdbd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
dhcdbd is already the newest version.
dhcdbd set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

evo2 · 01-01-2010, 01:35 AM

Hi,

the one thing that strikes me as strange here is that the dbus socket is being looked for in /usr/local/var/run instead of /var/run. Did you install dbus manually or using apt?

Evo2.

peeths003 · 01-01-2010, 06:36 AM

I have not installed manually, So it is installed either through apt or as a dependency for any other package or at the time of installation .

is there any work around ?

peeths003 · 01-05-2010, 12:38 AM

Should I re-install Debian now ?

peeths003 · 01-05-2010, 01:04 AM

I also tried reinstalling , but

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Peeths001:~# apt-get --reinstall install dbus dbus-x11 dhcdbd gnome-app-install network-manager network-manager-gnome gthumb gtkhtml3.14 hal hal-cups-utils dpkg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apache2-utils
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 11 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/4315kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 130036 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.14.27 (using .../dpkg_1.14.27_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up dpkg (1.14.27) ...
(Reading database ... 130036 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dbus 1.2.1-5+lenny1 (using .../dbus_1.2.1-5+lenny1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dbus ...
Preparing to replace dbus-x11 1.2.1-5+lenny1 (using .../dbus-x11_1.2.1-5+lenny1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dbus-x11 ...
Preparing to replace dhcdbd 3.0-5 (using .../dhcdbd_3.0-5_amd64.deb) ...
Stopping DHCP D-Bus daemon: dhcdbd.
Unpacking replacement dhcdbd ...
Preparing to replace gnome-app-install 0.5.5.1-1 (using .../gnome-app-install_0.5.5.1-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gnome-app-install ...
Preparing to replace gthumb 3:2.10.8-1+lenny2 (using .../gthumb_3%3a2.10.8-1+lenny2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gthumb ...
Preparing to replace gtkhtml3.14 3.18.3-1 (using .../gtkhtml3.14_3.18.3-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gtkhtml3.14 ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Setting up dbus (1.2.1-5+lenny1) ...
The system user `messagebus' already exists. Exiting.
Stopping System Tools Backends: system-tools-backendsstart-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 4145: No such process
.
Stopping network events dispatcher: NetworkManagerDispatcher.
Stopping network connection manager: NetworkManager.
Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: hald.
Stopping DHCP D-Bus daemon: dhcdbd.
Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.
Stopping system message bus: dbus.
Starting system message bus: dbus.
Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.
Starting DHCP D-Bus daemon: dhcdbd.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldinvoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
Starting network connection manager: NetworkManager.
Starting network events dispatcher: NetworkManagerDispatcher.
Starting System Tools Backends: system-tools-backends.
Setting up dbus-x11 (1.2.1-5+lenny1) ...
Setting up dhcdbd (3.0-5) ...
Reloading system message bus config...Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Failed to connect to socket /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed.
Starting DHCP D-Bus daemon: dhcdbd.
Setting up gnome-app-install (0.5.5.1-1) ...
Caching application data...
Generating mime/codec maps...
Setting up gthumb (3:2.10.8-1+lenny2) ...
Setting up gtkhtml3.14 (3.18.3-1) ...
Setting up hal (0.5.11-8) ...
Reloading system message bus config...Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Failed to connect to socket /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldinvoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hal-cups-utils:
hal-cups-utils depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hal-cups-utils (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager:
network-manager depends on hal (>= 0.5.7.1); however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager-gnome:
network-manager-gnome depends on network-manager (>= 0.6.5); however:
Package network-manager is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager-gnome (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
hal
hal-cups-utils
network-manager
network-manager-gnome
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

peeths003 · 01-05-2010, 01:05 AM

which all package should i install to configure everything in one stretch ?

evo2 · 01-05-2010, 01:18 AM

Sorry the problem does not appear to be with dbus but with network-admin which I believe is a part of the gnome-system-tools package. You could try reinstalling that.

Code:

aptitude reinstall gnome-system-tools

Or perhaps, better

Code:

aptitude purge gnome-system-tools
aptitude install gnome-system-tools

However this may want to remove too many gnome packages.

Evo2.

peeths003 · 01-07-2010, 07:36 AM

I initially did this

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aptitude purge gnome-system-tools

then the machine got restarted with no GUI and then i tried

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aptitude install gnome-system-tools

It again showed the dbus error message

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Reloading system message bus config...Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Failed to connect to socket /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldinvoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):

then ................................. I re-installed Debian ......

now its working fine ..........

evo2 · 01-07-2010, 10:36 AM

Oh well. Shame I couldn't help you fix it, but glad to hear your fresh install is all well and good.

Cheers,

Evo2.