On Saturday 20 of September 2014 11:50:40 Felmon Davis wrote: > greets! > > so I see there's no hal in '/etc/init.d'! > > apt-get says the latest version is installed. > > I'm considering removing hal and reinstalling it. seems quite risky > given everything that's associated with it. > > I cannot rip up this machine too much though, not in busy season. > > how should I proceed to restore hald? > > F. Absence init script for hald is not a fault - is initialized from dbus daemon. The question is, what's your kernel version - from distribution or backports? -- Slavek