Comment 9 for bug 204931

I updated the following packages and now it works again:

acpi-support (0.107) to 0.108
grub (0.97-29ubuntu18) to 0.97-29ubuntu19
hal (0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu1) to 0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu2
libhal-storage1 (0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu1) to 0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu2
libhal1 (0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu1) to 0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu2
libx86-1 (0.99-1.2ubuntu2) to 0.99-1.2ubuntu3
xubuntu-docs (8.04.1) to 8.04.2

This is what is in the changelog:

hal (0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: build using --with-deprecated-keys, since we don't want to
    break packages that were assuming this worked right up through beta.
    LP: #204768.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:24:33 +0000

Looks like this made NetworkManager break.

It would be interesting to look into this bug anyway, to make NetworkManager more robust. I had to kill NetworkManager with -9, as it wouldn't terminate otherwise.

Regards,
Lee