Failed to initialise HAL

Hello mates

my AAO is unable to start the HAL daemon at bootup.
Manually starting the service also fails, i used the following command.

Code:

/usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes

it seems to error out at this point:

Code:

[W] ci-tracker.c:299: Could not get uid for connection: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasOwner Could not get UID of name 'org.freedesktop.DBus' : no such name
hald__dbus.c:4944: Cannot get caller info for org.freedesktop.DBus
Runner started - allowed paths are ' /usr/libexec:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin'
[I] hald_runner.c:182: runner connection is 0x80a5f40
[W] osspec.c:326: Unable to open /proc/mdstat: No such file or directory
[I] mmap_cache.c:282: cache ntime = 1234734463
Error binding udev_event socket: Address allready in use

could anyone please help me?

 

i also checked my fstab (i used "." because spaces don't work):

Code:

cat /etc/fstab

Code:

/dev/sda1..../............ext2....defaults,noatime....1.1
none........./dev/pts....devpts....gid=5,mode=620
none........./dev/shm....tmpfs....defaults....0.0
none........./proc.......proc.....defaults....0.0
none........./sys........sysfs....defaults....0.0
#none......../tmp........tmpfs....defaults....0.0
/dev/sda2....swap........swap.....defaults....0.0

manually mounting doesn't work either

Code:

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows
Error opening '/dev/sdb1':No such device or address  
...

i allways mount my ntfs drives this way. and now, it doesn't work. Also HAL related i assume

 

okay, just going to install kuki linux

 

I am not sure this is a solution for you but it worked for me. When I installed XP on a ntfs partition, I had the HAL problem and XP won't boot. The solution is to edit boot.ini (within XP partition) and point to the correct partition (it was "multi (0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect" and I just changed "partition(3)")

Hope that helps