Failure to initialize hal errro message

[cornto]

I have a Acer Aspireone laptop. Whenever i turn on my system, it gives out whirring noise / noisy sound at startup. After some time immediately after the startup display, it gives out an error message stating that "failure to initialize hal" notice on the desktop screen. Meanwhile the cursor stays frozen, where the mid screen tried restarting in other mode. Can any body tell me that what is "failure to initialize hal" notice? How to i get rid of the above issue? Kindly provide me the correct solution for the above issue.

[Calvin K]

This error dialog actually comes from update-notifier. Could there be a race condition between dbus starting hald and GNOME starting update-notifier? Maybe the system logs provide some information? This is quite strange. Check :/var/log/syslog. Both for a non-working boot (HAL problem) and compare to the working (with CD) logs.

[Lillebror]

It look like you need to read some more files in /var/log but syslog is the main one. I use Mdv but hoping you also have /var/log/daemons.I found this problem is fixed after I did a "sudo apt-get upgrade". But the computer was frozen in starting hald.

[jesse]

Basically, gdm should not start before dbus/hal, since the gnome session *depends* on dbus/hal. I fully shutdown the system and left it unplugged for a few minutes, then booted up, and have not had either problem. Hope this helps some people.