Summarising the workaround above by jmrasor, running the four commands below then relogging fixes the problem temporarily. I have to do this on every boot to get my USB attached harddrives to be recognised, which is thankfully infrequent ;).
sudo mkdir /var/run/dbus sudo chown messagebus:messagebus /var/run/dbus sudo dbus-daemon --system sudo dpkg-reconfigure hal -- Failed to initalize HAL. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/25931 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
