Same here. When the samba share is auto mounted in /etc/fstab, HAL fails to initialise, the desktop is stalled for a couple of minutes. Then the desktop appears, and the samba share gets mounted. When doing lshal immediately in a terminal I got a message saying that HAL could not be connected to, either it was not running or not ready. After a couple of minutes trying lshal again shows me 94 entries from the global list. In other words, HAL seems stalled itself, waiting (too) long for samba to finish (even though it has nothing to do with samba I feel but it is in fstab the share is mounted so...). The work around, putting noauto in the fstab and after the desktop appears, mounting the share by hand seems to do it... for now. Let someone please take a look at this...
System specs: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ ASUS A8V-X 2x 256MB PC3200 DDR400 Ubuntu Dapper Drake (up-to-date) Radeon 9550 AGP8x -- auto smbfs mount in /etc/fstab causes hald hang at boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/44874 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
