On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Peter Laws wrote:

> 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, thanks to you, too!

After a recent 'normal' 10.04 LS update/upgrade, my `hald` was
seg-faulting on this netbook (Trinity 3.5.11).  I could not mount SD
cards, nor was kpowersave functioning.

I did the steps laid out above and VIOLA!, I'm good again.
(Here, hal-kde3 was involved, too.)

Again, Thank you.
Jonesy
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