Comment 88 for bug 25931

Got my HAL working even with CONCURRENCY in /etc/init.d/rc set to shell.

Here are the steps I took. (All are included above in previous posts and Bug #149881 link https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/149881 .)

Changed the CONCURRENCY setting by:

sudo gedit /etc/init.d/rc and editing CONCURRENCY=none to CONCURRENCY=shell. Then saving.

Compared my /etc/rc2.d filenames to those posted above. My rc2.d was S50dbus instead of S12dbus. Changed that by:

sudo mv /etc/rc2.d/S50dbus /etc/rc2.d/S12dbus

Saw in another thread that hal should be set to 13 so that it starts after dbus is started. My HAL was 12. Fixed that by:

sudo mv /etc/rc2.d/S12hal /etc/rc2.d/13hal

Another post said to change the Hal cache. Did that by:

sudo mv /var/cache/hald/fdi-cache~ /var/cache/hald/fdi-cache

Restarted PC and all seems fine.

Thanks to the Ubuntu posters for your help. Gutsy still starts up awlfully slow compared to Feisty.

Any other ideas are appreciated.