I experienced this behaviour today (2009-01-19) on Ubuntu 8.10: everything worked for me after the dist-upgrade some time ago.
But, today I accidentally disabled the 'dbus' service within the services-admin tool. The X server was restarted automatically and I was not able to login anymore. The cursor was blinking but no mouse or keyboard was usable. Switching to a shell by Alt+F6 was possible. Here I manaully started the dbus service and I could login again. So, I opened the services-admin tool to re-enable the dbus service, rebooted the machine...and was not able to login. Same thing as before. I tried re-installing dbus, hal, system-tools-backends...no results. I was able to fix the problem by changing the priority of the rc2.d/dbus script: after disabling dbus in GUI: u...@host:/etc$ ls -l /etc/rc*/*dbus* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc1.d/K88dbus -> ../init.d/dbus lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2009-01-19 22:38 /etc/rc2.d/S50dbus -> ../init.d/dbus lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc3.d/S12dbus -> ../init.d/dbus lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc4.d/S12dbus -> ../init.d/dbus lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc5.d/S12dbus -> ../init.d/dbus u...@host:/etc$ ls -l /etc/rc*/*hal* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc0.d/S90halt -> ../init.d/halt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-05-09 17:36 /etc/rc1.d/K16hal -> ../init.d/hal lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-05-09 17:36 /etc/rc2.d/S24hal -> ../init.d/hal lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-05-09 17:36 /etc/rc3.d/S24hal -> ../init.d/hal lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-05-09 17:36 /etc/rc4.d/S24hal -> ../init.d/hal lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-05-09 17:36 /etc/rc5.d/S24hal -> ../init.d/hal u...@host:/etc$ ls -l /etc/rc*/*gdm* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc0.d/K01gdm -> ../init.d/gdm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc1.d/K01gdm -> ../init.d/gdm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc2.d/S30gdm -> ../init.d/gdm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc3.d/S30gdm -> ../init.d/gdm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc4.d/S30gdm -> ../init.d/gdm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc5.d/S30gdm -> ../init.d/gdm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc6.d/K01gdm -> ../init.d/gdm Fix: u...@host:/etc$ sudo mv /etc/rc2.d/S50dbus /etc/rc2.d/S12dbus u...@host:/etc$ ls -l /etc/rc*/*dbus* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc1.d/K88dbus -> ../init.d/dbus lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2009-01-19 22:38 /etc/rc2.d/S12dbus -> ../init.d/dbus lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc3.d/S12dbus -> ../init.d/dbus lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc4.d/S12dbus -> ../init.d/dbus lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2008-04-28 18:11 /etc/rc5.d/S12dbus -> ../init.d/dbus Finally everything is working again - but somewhere weird things happen. -- 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 desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
