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dbus package

  1. Bug #25931
  2. Comment #133

Comment 133 for bug 25931

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Justin Clift (justinclift) wrote :

Hi,

I'm getting the "Failed to initialize HAL" error message after upgrading to 8.04 alpha last week.

Running this in a VMware Workstation virtual machine for testing.

Happens on every boot.

Investigated a few options people mention on the forums, but nothing worked.

Then looking at the /etc/rc2.d directory I noticed hal wasn't even listed!

S12dbus -> ../init.d/dbus
S13gdm -> ../init.d/gdm

and no hal at all.

Did a:

$ sudo ln -s ../init.d/hal S15hal

And rebooted, and now everything seems to start up properly. The "CONCURRENCY" level in /etc/init.d/rc hasn't been touched, it was already at "none" when I checked.

Hope this helps.