Failed to initialize HALD - Kernel crash

[ErMejo]

Booting from the Hardy RC CD.

Selecting Install option.

It comes to the desktop, and reports "Failed to initialize HALD".

What follows it the dmesg output, showing a kernel crash (as attachment, many information from proc/lspci/lsusb):

  172.778284] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.1[B] -> Link [AAZA] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 172.778304] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.1 to 64
[ 172.790707] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
[ 172.790732] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xfdbff000 irq 19 registered as card -2
[ 172.790797] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000001
[ 172.790800] printing eip: f8bcf745 *pde = 00000000
[ 172.790804] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 172.790807] Modules linked in: saa7134_alsa snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_hwdep tuner tea5767 tda8290 snd_seq_dummy tuner_simple mt20xx tea5761 snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi saa7134 snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq compat_ioctl32 videobuf_dma_sg videobuf_core ir_kbd_i2c snd_timer snd_seq_device ir_common videodev v4l2_common v4l1_compat button snd psmouse parport_pc agpgart serio_raw evdev k8temp parport soundcore pcspkr shpchp i2c_nforce2 i2c_core pci_hotplug battery squashfs loop unionfs nls_cp437 isofs ext3 jbd mbcache usbhid hid sg sr_mod cdrom sd_mod pata_amd pata_acpi floppy ata_generic forcedeth libata scsi_mod ehci_hcd ohci_hcd usbcore thermal processor fan fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor fuse
[ 172.790842]
[ 172.790844] Pid: 7072, comm: modprobe Not tainted (2.6.24-16-generic #1)
[ 172.790847] EIP: 0060:[<f8bcf745>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 1
[ 172.790860] EIP is at snd_pcm_timer_init+0x25/0x170 [snd_pcm]
[ 172.790862] EAX: 00000001 EBX: dfac3400 ECX: dfac9ddc EDX: 00000000
[ 172.790864] ESI: dfac35d4 EDI: f7676834 EBP: 00000018 ESP: dfac9dc4
[ 172.790866] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
[ 172.790869] Process modprobe (pid: 7072, ti=dfac8000 task=f74265a0 task.ti=dfac8000)
[ 172.790870] Stack: 00000000 00000001 f7676c00 00000000 f7676c00 00000000 00000003 00000000
[ 172.790875] dfac3400 00000018 f8b0620c 00000000 dfac35d4 f7676800 f8bc767f f8bd892c
[ 172.790880] f7676800 dfac9e18 f7676a00 00000001 f8bd05f4 436d6370 63304431 ffffff00
[ 172.790884] Call Trace:
[ 172.790893] [<f8b0620c>] snd_add_device_sysfs_file+0x3c/0x70 [snd]
[ 172.790906] [<f8bc767f>] snd_pcm_dev_register+0xef/0x200 [snd_pcm]
[ 172.790924] [<f8b0ae4d>] snd_device_register_all+0x2d/0x60 [snd]
[ 172.790935] [<f8b06a1e>] snd_card_register+0x1e/0x320 [snd]
[ 172.790950] [<f8b6731a>] alsa_device_init+0x23a/0x280 [saa7134_alsa]
[ 172.790961] [<f8b673cb>] saa7134_alsa_init+0x6b/0xc0 [saa7134_alsa]
[ 172.790966] [<c01506b6>] sys_init_module+0x126/0x19c0
[ 172.790995] [<f8bcfa80>] snd_pcm_format_width+0x0/0x20 [snd_pcm]
[ 172.791014] [<c01043c2>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xa9
[ 172.791026] =======================
[ 172.791027] Code: 5b c3 8d 74 26 00 56 89 c6 53 83 ec 30 8b 56 30 c7 44 24 1c 00 00 00 00 8d 4c 24 18 c7 44 24 18 03 00 00 00 8b 18 83 e2 01 8b 03 <8b> 00 89 44 24 20 8b 43 0c 89 44 24 24 8b 46 0c 01 c0 09 c2 8d
[ 172.791048] EIP: [<f8bcf745>] snd_pcm_timer_init+0x25/0x170 [snd_pcm] SS:ESP 0068:dfac9dc4
[ 172.791059] ---[ end trace 55752d12759a5e08 ]---
[ 173.069666] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0])
[ 173.069672] DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)...
[ 173.139142] tda1004x: setting up plls for 48MHz sampling clock
[ 175.133699] tda1004x: found firmware revision 29 -- ok
[ 352.014242] Adding 2000084k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2000084k
[ 352.898784] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 354.637645] No dock devices found.
[ 356.330196] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ processors (2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
[ 356.330157] powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0xe (2200 MHz), vid 0xe
[ 356.330161] powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0xc (2000 MHz), vid 0x10
[ 356.330163] powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0x10
[ 356.330165] powernow-k8: 3 : fid 0x2 (1000 MHz), vid 0x12
[ 359.028056] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[ 359.028060] apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.
[ 359.189225] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 359.254434] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 362.889565] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -240023038 ns)
[ 363.591758] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000001
[ 363.591764] printing eip: f8bc9c7f *pde = 00000000
[ 363.591767] Oops: 0000 [#2] SMP
[ 363.591770] Modules linked in: ppdev lp powernow_k8 cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_ondemand freq_table cpufreq_conservative video output sbs sbshc container dock ac iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables tda827x saa7134_dvb videobuf_dvb dvb_core tda1004x saa7134_alsa snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_hwdep tuner tea5767 tda8290 snd_seq_dummy tuner_simple mt20xx tea5761 snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi saa7134 snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq compat_ioctl32 videobuf_dma_sg videobuf_core ir_kbd_i2c snd_timer snd_seq_device ir_common videodev v4l2_common v4l1_compat button snd psmouse parport_pc agpgart serio_raw evdev k8temp parport soundcore pcspkr shpchp i2c_nforce2 i2c_core pci_hotplug battery squashfs loop unionfs nls_cp437 isofs ext3 jbd mbcache usbhid hid sg sr_mod cdrom sd_mod pata_amd pata_acpi floppy ata_generic forcedeth libata scsi_mod ehci_hcd ohci_hcd usbcore thermal processor fan fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor fuse
[ 363.591817]
[ 363.591819] Pid: 8200, comm: hald Tainted: G D (2.6.24-16-generic #1)
[ 363.591822] EIP: 0060:[<f8bc9c7f>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
[ 363.591833] EIP is at snd_pcm_info+0x2f/0x110 [snd_pcm]
[ 363.591835] EAX: 00000001 EBX: dfac3400 ECX: 00000040 EDX: f75d6800
[ 363.591837] ESI: 00000001 EDI: f75d6920 EBP: dfac35d4 ESP: df835e98
[ 363.591839] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
[ 363.591842] Process hald (pid: 8200, ti=df834000 task=f7690000 task.ti=df834000)
[ 363.591844] Stack: f75d6800 f75d6800 f752d780 dfac35d4 dfabea50 f8bc6d34 000040d0 dfaa1f00
[ 363.591849] f752d780 dfaa1f30 dfaa1f00 00000000 f8b084a4 f7cb4540 01835f30 ffffffff
[ 363.591854] dfa88a80 00000000 f5606590 f7cb4540 c01c33e6 f7cb4540 f5606590 00000000
[ 363.591858] Call Trace:
[ 363.591866] [<f8bc6d34>] snd_pcm_proc_info_read+0x34/0x180 [snd_pcm]
[ 363.591882] [<f8b084a4>] snd_info_entry_open+0x114/0x280 [snd]
[ 363.591898] [<c01c33e6>] proc_reg_open+0x46/0x70
[ 363.591906] [<c018b41f>] __dentry_open+0xbf/0x1c0
[ 363.591914] [<c018b5d5>] nameidata_to_filp+0x35/0x40
[ 363.591918] [<c01c33a0>] proc_reg_open+0x0/0x70
[ 363.591922] [<c018b630>] do_filp_open+0x50/0x60
[ 363.591929] [<c011faab>] check_pgt_cache+0x1b/0x20
[ 363.591941] [<c018b2d2>] get_unused_fd_flags+0x52/0xd0
[ 363.591949] [<c018b68c>] do_sys_open+0x4c/0xe0
[ 363.591957] [<c018b75c>] sys_open+0x1c/0x20
[ 363.591960] [<c01043c2>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xa9
[ 363.591977] =======================
[ 363.591978] Code: 48 00 00 00 89 7c 24 0c 89 d7 89 6c 24 10 89 c5 89 5c 24 04 89 74 24 08 89 14 24 8b 18 8b 70 04 31 c0 f3 ab 8b 03 b9 40 00 00 00 <8b> 00 89 42 0c 8b 43 0c 89 02 8b 45 30 89 42 08 8b 45 0c 89 42
[ 363.591999] EIP: [<f8bc9c7f>] snd_pcm_info+0x2f/0x110 [snd_pcm] SS:ESP 0068:df835e98
[ 363.592010] ---[ end trace 55752d12759a5e08 ]---
[ 363.738784] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[ 363.739058] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 363.739061] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 363.739064] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 363.835992] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.9
[ 363.835996] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 363.838564] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 363.838574] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 363.838576] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[ 365.451548] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 365.451757] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 388.513495] gnome-keyring-d[8824]: segfault at 8bf45d8f eip b7e814f0 esp bfab6fc0 error 4

[trollord (trollenlord)]

Hal is querying for devices -> OOPS.

[ErMejo (andrea-lombardoni)]

The same hardware works perfectly fine with the 7.10 CD.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi ErMejo,

This is a duplicate of 212271 and is being marked as such. Please make sure you have the latest linux-ubuntu-modules installed. Thanks.