Package: hal Version: 0.5.11-8 Severity: important Forwarding Ubuntu bug 275825: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/hal/+bug/275825
I had very similar issue, only a config/hal] couldn't initialise context: (null)/(null) message and no clue what is going on. The hint from Martin helped, after touch'ing the fdi file and restarting hal, it suddenly worked. Regards, Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii hal-info 20090309-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f ii libc6 2.9-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.80-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 2.0.1-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.0-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage1 0.5.11-8 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal1 0.5.11-8 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libsmbios2 2.0.3.dfsg-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library ii libvolume-id0 0.125-7 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.2-22 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii mount 2.13.1.1-1 Tools for mounting and manipulatin ii pciutils 1:3.1.2-2 Linux PCI Utilities ii pm-utils 1.2.4-2 utilities and scripts for power ma ii udev 0.140-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii usbutils 0.73-10 Linux USB utilities Versions of packages hal recommends: ii eject 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-5 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer ii libsmbios-bin 2.0.3.dfsg-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa Versions of packages hal suggests: pn gnome-device-manager <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- Als Naturfreund, mache ich gern schöne Autotouren. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org