I've not been able to get gishi's workaround to work

This is a SERIOUS bug. I don't understand why it's not affecting
everyone running Gutsy.

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge hal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  python-crypto libboost-regex1.34.1 libcluceneindex0 python-paramiko 
guile-g-wrap libsearchclient0
  python-dev python-rpm libboost-iostreams1.34.1 guile-library 
libstreamanalyzer0 xfdesktop4 g-wrap
  libtext-template-perl libpurple-bin openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb libstreams0 
xfce4-utils
  openoffice.org-l10n-en-za libsexymm2 libclucene0 xfdesktop4-data 
libglademm-2.4-1c2a libgwrap-runtime0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  hal*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 1733kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 242631 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing hal ...
 * Stopping Hardware abstraction layer hald                                     
                    [ OK ]
Purging configuration files for hal ...
 * Reloading system message bus config...                                       
                    [ OK ]
$ sudo apt-get install hal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  python-crypto libboost-regex1.34.1 libcluceneindex0 python-paramiko 
guile-g-wrap libsearchclient0
  python-dev python-rpm libboost-iostreams1.34.1 guile-library 
libstreamanalyzer0 xfdesktop4 g-wrap
  libtext-template-perl libpurple-bin openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb libstreams0 
xfce4-utils
  openoffice.org-l10n-en-za libsexymm2 libclucene0 xfdesktop4-data 
libglademm-2.4-1c2a libgwrap-runtime0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  hal-device-manager
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  hal
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/689kB of archives.
After unpacking 1733kB of additional disk space will be used.
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 171
  Major opcode:  149
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 171
  Major opcode:  149
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
Selecting previously deselected package hal.
(Reading database ... 242518 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking hal (from .../hal_0.5.9.1-6ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up hal (0.5.9.1-6ubuntu1) ...
 * Reloading system message bus config...                                       
                    [ OK ]
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald                                     
                           invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 hal
Saving new apt-history status...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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[Gutsy] HAL won't start
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/147963
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