Comment 73 for bug 25931

I am another "Failed to initialize HAL" Gutsy user. My computer is a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. 1G RAM, 80G HD. I had no problems in Fiesty. Did a network upgrade to get Gutsy. WUBI originally used to install Fiesty.

Things are pretty sluggish.

System > Administration > Network Settings experience. Dialog is greyed out for about 90 seconds. Then populates. Was able to set-up ethernet and wireless connections, but had to use manual settings. Navigating in this dialog takes plenty of patience. Often over a minute between actions.

System > Preferences > Hardware Information Unpopulated dialog opens for about 5 seconds then closes.
System > Preferences > Power Management No dialog ever opens.

Concurrency setting in /etc/init.d/rc is set to 'none'.