When you experience this, does 'pidof hald' (in a terminal) show any number or is it completely empty? If it's empty, then this sounds like a dbus problem (similar to bug 25931). In that case, can you please try
sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal start and check whether it works then? ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- hal cannot obtain list of devices https://launchpad.net/bugs/53984 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs