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. -- Peter Laws / N5UWY National Weather Center / Network Operations Center University of Oklahoma Information Technology plaws@... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feedback? Contact my director, Matt Younkins, younkinsm@.... Thank you!