Hardware information won't start

It sounds like a problem with HAL probably crashing on startup. Have you
tried upgrading the system to the latest available feisty packages? (run
update-manager)

Alan

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 11:52 +0000, Molly wrote:
> New question #14431 on Ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/14431
>
> I'm new in ubuntu 7.4 and after some instalations I get the following:
> First at startup i get "hal failed to initialize", I have a question mark on my network connection icon saying "no network connection" but I can connect to internet (!) and it's impossible to run Hardware information (under : System preferences).
> Both of my partitioned NTFS hardisks work and I can write and read and printer er ok! Any suggestions? Help appreciated!
>

I did. No updates. :-(

This started to appear just after installation, or after some specific change? Do you have some removable, usb devices? Or maybe you have automatic login enabled?

You may try to reinstall hal (hardware abstraction layer), you can do that using synaptic or adept package manager, or with a command from a terminal:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install hal

Also you can start hal from terminal manually, trying this could give some insight into the problem:
sudo hald start --verbose=yes --daemon=no

I did but nothing.
 I had to delete HAL via terminal and reinstall gnome cause even though I installed HAL again Ubuntu couldn't start. :-) .
Anyway I did it! Thanks for your help!