> On 11/02/11 08:46, Laws, Peter C. wrote: >> Update went OK with no errors seen. However, since rebooting, I have >> mouse control, the desktop clock is running, but I can do nothing. I'\ >> can read mail on my Mac, but I really need for this to be running. >> >> Any ideas? I'm sshed in so can grab logs if needed (though I don't >> really see anything glaring). >> >> Help? > > > Thanks, big-time, to both Calvin M and Tim P for their assistance! > > Turns out that hald got amnesia at least, if not a more serious brain > disease, and kept dying/respawning/quitting. > > Tim's suggestion was to purge hal and his friends and start over, which > worked: > > 1. Use dpkg --purge --force-all to remove all hal related packages (i.e. > all packages with hal in their name; use dpkg -l | grep hal to find them) > > That list on my system was: > hal > hal-info > hal-trinity > libhal-storage1 > libhal1 > > 2. apt-get update > 3. apt-get -f install > 4. Reboot > > > And voila, all is now functional! > > > I'm not sure all is well with hald, though, as I still don't see > thumbdrives getting mounted. But I can WORK, and that's a good thing. > Glad to have been of assistance! On a related note, this is one reason why we need to get rid of HAL as a dependency. HAL is not the most stable of programs on newer hardware, and the fact that it can take TDE down if it fails is a Very Bad Thing. Tim