Failed to initialize HAL

[{MaX}]

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Whenever I install Ubuntu 5.04, everything goes smoothly. But when it's properly set up and I use it for a while and then restart it, the desktop fails to load. I can see the brown desktop, but not the icons and wallpaper. I can see the 2 GNOME panels but not the icons and menus. And after a while, I get the message "Failed to inititalize HAL". What's wrong?

I'm on a P4 1.8GHZ, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD. The partitions are as follows -
HDA1 - Windows C: (NTFS) - 20GB
HDA2 - Windows D: (NTFS) - 20GB
HDA3 - EXT3 - 9.6GB
HDA5 - SWAP - 455MB
HDA6 - WIndows E: (NTFS) - 24GB

To make way for Linux, I had used Paragon Partition Manager on Windows 2000 to resize the D: to 20GB and I'd created the Linux partitions during the Ubuntu setup.

[{MaX}]

What, no replies? Please guys, help. I need to write some programs and I don't wanna do it in Windows.

[{MaX}]

Still no help! Please guys, help.

[rcgreen]

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I looked at some ubuntu forums. They seem to think it could
be related to mounting smb network drives.
Check the file /etc/fstab for what drives are
mounted at boot time.

[{MaX}]

I don't have any smb network drives mounted at startup.

[kornos]

i had this error also.

the problem was that i deactivated dbus service from service-admin.
D-Bus is a message bus, used for sending messages between
applications.

it is used heavily by many Ubuntu config scripts.

by deactivating it , at the runtime /var/run/dbus was not created and from here the hal error appeared.

So be sure that dbus service runs at startup and if the error persists reinstall dbus package.