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HAL Failed to Initialize - Lenny w/ 2.6.23 kernel

At bootup, the computer hangs on "Starting Hardware abstraction layer: hald" for a few minutes, but then boots up. When I log into GNOME I get a pop up saying "HAL has failed to initialize."

Running /etc/init.d/dbus restart I get:

Code:

/etc/init.d/dbus restart

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 failed!

Starting DHCP D-Bus daemon: dhcdbd.

Starting Hardware abstraction layer: hald

At which point the terminal hangs.

pidof hal returns no results.

Also, when I try to do anything with Synaptic or apt-get I recieve the following error:

Code:

E: linux-image-2.6.18-5-686: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

E: hal: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

E: gnome-mount: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

E: gnome-power-manager: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

E: gnome-volume-manager: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

E: hal-device-manager: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

E: linux-image-2.6.22-2-686: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

E: linux-image-2.6-686: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

E: network-manager: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

E: network-manager-gnome: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

E: update-notifier: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

The package I'm installing will work fine, but I get that error every time, it also hangs on hald for a long time.

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Originally Posted by Lothoir (Post 2977888)

At bootup, the computer hangs on "Starting Hardware abstraction layer: hald" for a few minutes, but then boots up. When I log into GNOME I get a pop up saying "HAL has failed to initialize."

Has it ever worked, or did it just stop?

I hate to say this, but ...

I had a similar problem on my AMD64 machine. In order to solve it, I eventually had to explicitly tell aptitude to replace the lenny version with the one from sid. For me, that worked.

Hope it helps you out too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nutria (Post 2978857)

Has it ever worked, or did it just stop?

It worked fine before I updated to Lenny and got a new kernel, I was running Etch 2.6.18 before.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Willy Gommel (Post 2979315)

I'll try that, thanks!

EDIT: Just did it, and while my machine boots up much quicker I still recieve the error when I log in.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lothoir (Post 2981548)

It worked fine before I updated to Lenny and got a new kernel, I was running Etch 2.6.18 before.

Do you have the 2.6.18 .config file?

No, but it was the default configuration that comes with Sarge.