HAL is a pretty fundamental piece of infrastructure on a desktop ubuntu system (not talking about ubuntu-server here as that will most likely not have a bootsplash). Without it hardly anything works properly. So a user should get informed that it failed to start IMHO.
Letting the boot continue without any hint to anything being wrong is definitely not a feature. -- usplash hides failed services https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248650 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
