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During upgrade my screensaver frooze during cleanup. Had to manually restart. Start up revealed error- failure to initialize HAL

Asked by Lewis Arnold

During upgrade to 8.04 from 7.10 my screensaver frooze during cleanup. Had to manually restart. Start up revealed error- failure to initialize HAL.
Many of my applications look as if they are trying to open but nothing happens. Firefox won't initialize so I couldn't get online.

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Best Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said : 		#1

Boot Ubuntu in Recovery Mode, and then run:-
apt-get install -f
and
dpkg --configure -a

Then reboot the system with:-
reboot

See if that fixes the problems.

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Lewis Arnold (lewis-arnold) said : 		#2

I made a cd of download hoping to reistall and it opened it but I couldn't figure out how to reinstall it. I clicked on anything I thought would help but so far I'm still stuck with a cute bird that won't lay any eggs :)

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Lewis Arnold (lewis-arnold) said : 		#3

Cannot get computer in recovery mode. Even boot menu locks up.

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Pramod Dematagoda (pmdematagoda) said : 		#4

What happens when you use the Live CD? Does it work properly?

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Lewis Arnold (lewis-arnold) said : 		#5

Thanks Pramod Dematagoda, that solved my question.