lenny, alsa source code, cupsd hang, failed to initialize hal

I recently installed the alsa source code into my lenny desktop. Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem #1 SMP Wed Aug 19 06:34:05 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Now the boot process hangs at cupsd. Also, when I am able to get into GDM and login after using single-user mode, I get a "failed to initialize H

Lenny is acting screwing after alsa sourcecode install

I'm using Lenny stable. Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem #1 SMP Wed Aug 19 06:34:05 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux The boot process is hanging on cupsd. After logging into a user after GDM I get something like this: FAILED TO INITIALIZE HAL! and then it won't give me my networkmanager icon. I had to r