Update: after restarting dbus and gdm, the problem has gone away. I have a sneaking suspicion this is related to using NX with the same user as a login session at least in my case. If I log in to nx before the console, I also get a message about HAL not being able to initialize. When this message doesn't appear, it seems, the problem doesn't exist. Details at 11...
Update: after restarting dbus and gdm, the problem has gone away. I have a sneaking suspicion this is related to using NX with the same user as a login session at least in my case. If I log in to nx before the console, I also get a message about HAL not being able to initialize. When this message doesn't appear, it seems, the problem doesn't exist. Details at 11...