After upgrade I get "Failed to Load HAL" - nothing works

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Where does this Failed to open HAL popup?

I'm not the original poster, but I get the same error. The error appears as a popup on the xfce desktop screen after mythfrontend crashes (a separate problem), and everything that relies on HAL doesn't work, eg the network is down. This is after upgrade to kernel 2.6.24.15 and .16 (both do it). Selecting .14 (which I still have installed) from the boot menu avoids the problem.

I did some googling, and this error appears to be a common one caused by different things over the years. The latest explanation was that upstart now tries to boot things in parallel, and there's a race condition between HAL and dbus (as I recall). But I tried the suggested fix (to change the boot order forcing HAL to start after dbus), but it didn't help.

BTW, this is on an Athlon64 box, but I'm running the generic kernel, as that's what the 64 bit mythbuntu 8.04 beta installed.

Interesting bug. I've seen similar things filed in normal ol' Ubuntu I
believe. Can you post some logs from /var/log/, probably daemon.log, dmesg
and friends?

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Peter Schachte <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> I'm not the original poster, but I get the same error. The error
> appears as a popup on the xfce desktop screen after mythfrontend crashes
> (a separate problem), and everything that relies on HAL doesn't work, eg
> the network is down. This is after upgrade to kernel 2.6.24.15 and .16
> (both do it). Selecting .14 (which I still have installed) from the
> boot menu avoids the problem.
>
> I did some googling, and this error appears to be a common one caused by
> different things over the years. The latest explanation was that
> upstart now tries to boot things in parallel, and there's a race
> condition between HAL and dbus (as I recall). But I tried the suggested
> fix (to change the boot order forcing HAL to start after dbus), but it
> didn't help.
>
> BTW, this is on an Athlon64 box, but I'm running the generic kernel, as
> that's what the 64 bit mythbuntu 8.04 beta installed.
>
> --
> After upgrade I get "Failed to Load HAL" - nothing works
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215713
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of
> Mythbuntu, which is a direct subscriber.
>

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Mario Limonciello
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Sure. I'm attaching dmesg, daemon.log, and messages from the moments after boot. Please let me know if you need anything else.

Ohhh this bug. I bet it's related to the cx88-alsa debacle that broke everything. This is already known about. I'll find the original and get you it.