[Error] Failed to inititialize HAL!

AOU's

Please help me because my AAO has a majure problem. He can't initialize the HAL! I cant get on internet, USB ports don't work, cant use the terminal and such things. Please help me.. I have no idea what to do..

 

First, try starting the HAL service manually - in a terminal, type:

Code:

sudo service hald start

Either this will work (so you'll get no output, but HAL will start up), or it will generate error messages. If you get errors, post them back into a message here and we'll have a look at what's wrong.

I did have this once myself; a manual start solved it and after that it started normally on boot.

 

I did get errormessages:

Code:

audit_log_user_command():Connection refused
hald: unrecognized service

 

That's a familiar one which arises from using sudo. Don't worry about it (if it bothers you there is a thread somewhere in the furom about getting rid of it); it doesn't actually stop sudo working.

Aargh! My error, sorry. Try

Code:

sudo service haldaemon start

 

it says

Code:

audit_log_user_command(): Connection refused
Starting HAL daemon

and internet still doesnt work..

 

OK; but does other stuff (like USB pen drives) now work? If not you may still have hal problems, so it would be better to try to sort those out before starting on the network.

If you do have other fuinctionality back, then it's likely that the network manager failed to start properly when hal wasn't running; you can manually start the network system with

Code:

sudo service NetworkManager restart
sudo service NetworkManagerDispatcher restart

(I think that's right; I've upgraded my networkmanager packages but I don't think the commands would be different).

 

I posted a temporary solution here:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11956

I believe it has something to do with the /var/lock/subsys directory getting deleted during shutdown causing services not to be able to start on boot up. I haven't yet found a permanent solution, but the commands in my last post should get you going in the meantime.