I have had also this problem after upgrade to gutsy. I thought that HAL uses DBUS subsystem and this dependency could cause problems.
Command runlevel told me that I am in runlevel 2. So I checked my /etc/rc2.d directory: there was a link called S12hal, but S50dbus! After I renamed the latter to S10dbus, the problem was solved. -- HAL Crashes on first login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152010 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
