Faild to initialize hal!

[lp-void]

Binary package hint: avahi-daemon

I suddenly got this error "Faild to initialize hal!" when starting up the desktop environment.

Investigation:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart
*Stopping System Tools Backends system-tools-backends [ ok ]
*Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon [fail]
*Stopping Hardware abstraction layer hald [ ok ]
*Stopping system message bus dbus [ ok ]
*Starting system message bus dbus [ ok ]
*Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald [ ok ]
*Starting Avahi Unicast DNS Configuration Daemon: avahi-dnsconfd [fail]
*Starting System Tools Backends system-tools-backends [ ok ]

Then I uninstalled the failed packages and the error message dissapeared; but are they important, do they will affect DNS?

[Trent Lloyd (lathiat)]

Hi There,

Avahi starting or not starting would not cause HAL to fail.

Notably I have seen myself in the past this happen and a simple reboot fixes it.

Bus as I said I doubt avahi is the culprit

If you were able to start avahi again and reproduce this let me know.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is most likely a dbus issue, and very similar to bug 25931. It should have nothing to do with avahi.

[greymaiden (greymaiden)]

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