Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: hal

Hey Guys,

I have been through all the discussion on "Failed to Initialize HAL"
errors and I have not found a solution for my problem. I have had Ubuntu
8.04 installed on my machine since the official release of the beta.
About four days ago a new wave of updates came and one of those updates
caused this error message when I restarted the PC. I have tried a clean
installation and then updating and I get the same error. I also tried
another clean install and updating everything except hal and I get the
same error. It only happens on my desktop and not my VMs or laptop.

Desktop Hardware:
Intel Core 2 Duo
2gb ram+
nVidia 7900GS
PCHDTV Inc. HD-5500 (Could be the problem here)

I have attached the dmesg output. There's a very nasty exception in
there, here's an excerpt:

[   47.758115] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual 
address 00000008
[   47.758121] printing eip: f8b24cd2 *pde = 00000000 
[   47.758125] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 
[   47.758128] Modules linked in: ppdev acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_conservative 
cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats cpufreq_ondemand freq_table cpufreq_powersave 
sbs video output sbshc container dock battery iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables 
ac sbp2 lp snd_hda_intel dvb_pll lirc_mceusb2 snd_hwdep lirc_dev evdev 
snd_seq_dummy parport_pc lgdt330x parport cx88_dvb cx88_vp3054_i2c videobuf_dvb 
dvb_core tuner tea5767 tda8290 tuner_simple mt20xx tea5761 snd_seq_oss 
snd_seq_midi cx88_alsa snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_rawmidi serio_raw snd_pcm 
cx8802 snd_seq_midi_event cx8800 snd_page_alloc cx88xx psmouse ir_common 
snd_seq i2c_algo_bit tveeprom i2c_core compat_ioctl32 videodev v4l2_common 
v4l1_compat videobuf_dma_sg videobuf_core btcx_risc snd_timer snd_seq_device 
button snd iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support heci soundcore intel_agp agpgart pcspkr 
shpchp pci_hotplug sr_mod cdrom usb_storage ext3 jbd mbcache sg sd_mod 8139cp 
pata_marvell usbhid hid libusual ata_generic ohci1394 ieee1394 ahci pata_acpi 
8139too mii libata scsi_mod ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore e1000 thermal processor 
fan fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor fuse
[   47.758209] 
[   47.758212] Pid: 5643, comm: hald Not tainted (2.6.24-15-generic #1)
[   47.758214] EIP: 0060:[<f8b24cd2>] EFLAGS: 00010282 CPU: 1
[   47.758229] EIP is at snd_pcm_info+0x82/0x110 [snd_pcm]
[   47.758231] EAX: 0000005d EBX: f74a1800 ECX: 00000020 EDX: f7456600
[   47.758234] ESI: 00000000 EDI: f7456720 EBP: f743c1d4 ESP: f5427e98
[   47.758236]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
[   47.758239] Process hald (pid: 5643, ti=f5426000 task=f5411680 
task.ti=f5426000)
[   47.758242] Stack: f7456600 f7456600 f7042cc0 f743c1d4 f707be90 f8b21d34 
000040d0 f75d3540 
[   47.758250]        f7042cc0 f75d3570 f75d3540 00000000 f8a5c4a4 f7457840 
01427f30 ffffffff 
[   47.758256]        f75c4300 00000000 f504c170 f7457840 c01c43e6 f7457840 
f504c170 00000000 
[   47.758263] Call Trace:
[   47.758272]  [<f8b21d34>] snd_pcm_proc_info_read+0x34/0x180 [snd_pcm]
[   47.758289]  [<f8a5c4a4>] snd_info_entry_open+0x114/0x280 [snd]
[   47.758307]  [<c01c43e6>] proc_reg_open+0x46/0x70
[   47.758316]  [<c018c41f>] __dentry_open+0xbf/0x1c0
[   47.758324]  [<c018c5d5>] nameidata_to_filp+0x35/0x40
[   47.758329]  [<c01c43a0>] proc_reg_open+0x0/0x70
[   47.758336]  [<c018c630>] do_filp_open+0x50/0x60
[   47.758343]  [<c0120aab>] check_pgt_cache+0x1b/0x20
[   47.758354]  [<c018c2d2>] get_unused_fd_flags+0x52/0xd0
[   47.758361]  [<c018c68c>] do_sys_open+0x4c/0xe0
[   47.758369]  [<c018c75c>] sys_open+0x1c/0x20
[   47.758374]  [<c01053c2>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xa9
[   47.758388]  =======================
[   47.758390] Code: 50 00 00 00 8b 04 24 83 c0 50 e8 5a fd 6e c7 0f b7 43 14 
b9 20 00 00 00 8b 14 24 89 82 c0 00 00 00 0f b7 43 16 89 82 c4 00 00 00 <8b> 46 
08 89 82 c8 00 00 00 8b 46 08 2b 46 0c 89 82 cc 00 00 00 
[   47.758428] EIP: [<f8b24cd2>] snd_pcm_info+0x82/0x110 [snd_pcm] SS:ESP 
0068:f5427e98
[   47.758442] ---[ end trace 52c69f595a6c96ba ]---


Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help.

** Affects: hal (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Hal Failed to Initialize
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