Comment 19 for bug 81670

I just got the "Internal error: failed to initialize HAL" dialog again.
My version of Ubuntu and kernel:

$ lsb_release -dsc
Ubuntu 6.10
edgy

$ uname -r
2.6.17-11-generic

Florent Mertens wrote:
> The best is to simply restart gnome.
Login out of the gnome session and logging in shows the message "Internal error: failed to initialize HAL" again!
What do you mean by restarting gnome?

Below I did a hal debug as described in the 2nd part of this wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices.

$ sudo killall hald
hald: no process killed

$ sudo hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes 2>&1 | tee hal.log
>>> see attachment <<<

$ sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal start
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald [ ok ]

Then I logged out and in again, this solves the problem since the error dialog is gone and running the following command returns:
$ ps -A | grep hald
 4565 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
 4581 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
 4590 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
 4592 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
 6666 ? 00:00:02 hald
 6667 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner
 6673 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
 6684 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
 6693 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
 6695 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor