This was simply because hal is not running. Did you happen to manually stop/disable it? Can you please give me the output of
ps aux|egrep 'hal|dbus' Does it work after sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal start ? ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- [apport] hal-device-manager crashed with DBusException in __call__() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99362 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs