Problem with HAL

[Oumar Aziz OUATTARA]

It's been a couple of week now that I often have two screen warning screens when I start my computer :

"failed to initialize HAL!"

and

"This program cannot start until you start the dbus system service.
It is strongly recommended you reboot your compter after starting messagebus."

[Oumar Aziz OUATTARA (wattazoum)]

Someone else posted it on the Users mailing list. He found out that that was happening when he starts his computer with a CD inside.

[Dragonito (robin-dragonito)]

When i comment out the network (smbfs) mounts from fstab it works.

[Jaap Versteegh (j-r-versteegh)]

I have this problem when my Wingman Force 3D joystick is plugged in (to an USB socket)

[amak79 (amak79)]

I Installed smbfs and added an entry to fstab to mount a samba share. After a reboot the "failed to initialize HAL!" error popped up when logging in. Removing the fstab entry and a reboot solved this problem. Running Ubuntu 6.06.1 with all updates applied.

[s5unty (s5unty+launchapd)]

I got the same error after I installed the dbus-1.0.1 and dbus-glib-0.72 into /usr
I think it must be caught by the dbus config file.