Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Lubomir Kundrak <<a href="mailto:lkundrak@redhat.com">lkundrak@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"> On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 01:00 +0530, Akhil Ravidas wrote: > When i login, i get a dialog saying: HAL not started. I have to > manually start it each time. how to start HAL at startup?? > i tried sudo update-rc.d hal defaults which gives this message "System > startup links for /etc/init.d/hal already exist" > > In sysv-rc-conf command hal has run level 2 , 3 , 4 , 5. sill HAL > daemon does not start despite me being at runlevel 2 . </div>Maybe hal dies early after startup attempt. What Operating system are you using? -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team) </blockquote></div>