Wubi/Ubuntu & Hal

[spnoe]

I recently updated in the normal method and the update was HAL. The update went well but when I restarted Ubuntu I received a message saying HAL failed.

I expect others are experiencing the same problem as I have installed twice and all works well until I intastall the update to HAL.

My question is should we use the update with WUBI and is there a way around trhis error without having to re-install and not installing the update?

Thanks for help.

Steve

[BlueFiberOptics]

I had this exact problem and I just uninstalled Wubi and figured it was something with Ubuntu. So is it really Wubi that is the cause of the HAL not working after updates?

[ago]

I cannot reproduce that. I updated a new installation and everything worked fine. Can anybody else confirm this?

[ago]

You may want to run chkdisk from windows and see if that fixes the issue.

[Spegelius]

Actually, i'm having the exact same problem; booted my server Wubi-installation (the one that i completted when testing the RAID support inclusion) and update lupin and then allowed all the other updates to install. After booting, the HAL-problem crept up and it's been on ever since. Even tried re-installing all installed hal* packages manually, but no joy. The HAL process startup seems to stop with error code 1 (that's as much i can seem from the boot output and syslog doesn't even show that...).

I'll try booting with the earlier kernel, not the latest.

[ago]

Spegelius try to see if you can get some more info, I cannot reproduce that

[murkin]

i just ran across the same issue. the solution for me was found here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=456395

"/var/cache/hald/fdi-cache" was somehow renamed into "/var/cache/hald/fdi-cache~"

After I renamed this file and rebooted, all seems back to normal. Looks like this is an issue with Ubuntu itself, not Wubi.

[ago]

Looks like this is an issue with Ubuntu itself, not Wubi.

Yep, thanks for the solution.

[ingo]

I did this and my apt-get procedure is working again. However, my system has stopped mounting usb sticks and cd roms/dvds altogether - sort of stumps me...

This is what konqueror blurts out:Method "Mount" with signature "ssas" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist?????????

[ingo]

Here is a copy of my fstab for all its worth...# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/media/host/wubi/disks/system.virtual.disk / ext3 loop,sync 0 1
/media/host/wubi/disks/home.virtual.disk /home ext3 loop,sync 0 2
/media/host/wubi/disks/swap.virtual.disk none swap sw 0 0

[ingo]

This is what made everything work again for me :)

sudo /usr/lib/hal/hald-generate-fdi-cache

This bug report helped (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/139155)