Package: hal, bootchart Version: unknown. Severity: critical I ran "sudo aptitude reinstall hal", and as per the command, hal reinstalled. Followed by some weird messages, which made absolutely no sense to me, and unfortunately I forgot to copy them...
Anyway, the next couple of reboots worked fine, until I tried to run a bootchart. I added init=/sbin/bootchartd to the appropiate place in menu.lst in /boot/grub/ and rebooted (a note, bootchart was running fine before the hal reinstall) - I can't get past booting now, X, gdm, hal and pretty much every other package fail to initialize in a massive string of errors most of which say 'rm: cannot remove ....." (I can't ever see the ...... it scrolls away too quickly). After everything fails I'm still given a console login, but the entire system is still in read-only mode (probably why all the rm's failed). I can't find any of these messages in any of the log files in /var/log/ and have no idea what I can to try and fix this - nor do I have any idea which log I should submit to assist with investigating this. I've run a live USB install which has allowed me to remove the init=/sbin/bootchartd from grub, but this makes no difference... I'm running the debian EEEpc distribution, on an EEE 701 with 4gb SSD. help?
