>Could you describe in detail, how you installed your system >(net-install,live-cd, gnome task during installation, etc)
>Cheers, >Michael First of all, I installed Ubuntu because I was in a hurry but hal was not working so I took a Debian CD and started the installation. I installed it with a live cd by selecting "Web Server" and "Desktop Environment" from tasksel. I just followed the instructions and after the reboot, hal was not working (just as with ubuntu), so I reinstalled, after that I looked at the logs (because it wasn't working again) and saw this: "Mar 29 16:40:21 Debian gnome-session[1495]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No existe el fichero o el directorio" I knew something was wrong with dbus and hal so I tried to manually start hal. HAL: Can't start Hardware abstraction layer - please ensure dbus is running Dbus: UUID file '/var/lib/dbus/machine-id' should contain a hex string of length 32, not length 0, with no other text I cat-ed the contents of /var/lib/dbus/machine-id and it was indeed empty so I made a backup and removed the file then I reinstalled Dbus with aptitude (aptitude reinstall dbus) it generated a new file and now it wasn't empty, rebooted and HAL worked again. After Debian had been installed in my PC, I tried to install Ubuntu in another PC, same problem... took my Debian CD and again, same problem so I repeated the procedure. Right now both PC's run Debian smoothly. Regards, José Luis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
