Comment 30 for bug 186264

The -evdev driver is dependent on hal running in order for the mouse and keyboard to work. If hal segfaults, as indicated in the original report, yes Xorg will fail. With input not working, restarting hal requires ssh'ing into the system or something, to do it remotely. (Ick... but it *should* work as a workaround).

A number of people are me-too'ing to this bug, however you probably have unrelated bugs. If you are *not* using -evdev, or you are and hal *isn't* crashed, then you have some other bug. Please report separately.

And even if you are having a hal crash, it may be worthwhile to report it separately against hal, since it could be crashing for unrelated reasons.

This bug will focus only on the hal segfault Matt reported. I'll reassign to hal for further troubleshooting.