I've finally found what was kicking this off, though I think it's more a symptom than a cause.
I had SMB shares auto-mounting. Removing them from fstab fixed the problem, lshal now gives output and update-notifier now works.
From the variety of fixes that have worked for people it looks to me like something in the start-scripts for hal is being brittle...
I've finally found what was kicking this off, though I think it's more a symptom than a cause.
I had SMB shares auto-mounting. Removing them from fstab fixed the problem, lshal now gives output and update-notifier now works.
From the variety of fixes that have worked for people it looks to me like something in the start-scripts for hal is being brittle...