Strange boot up

[eddieg538]

When my computer is booting there are lines that say unable to execute and it runs these line several times until the screen goes to the kubuntu boot screen, the blue one. This started after the 12.04 to 14.04 upgrade. Machine runs fine but does anyone know how to fix this. Picture attached. Have a small video but don't know how to upload it. Thank you.

[OneLine]

Hal ?

Tweaking the perspective...



Error seems to be:

systemd-udevd [ ]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event' 'socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event': No such file or directory'

Searching with the error message...

Few hits:

- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...l/+bug/1268343
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...l/+bug/1182801

[millusions]

im no guru, but see quite a few of those freedesktop errors,
this does not effect every day computing.

i imagine those are services for various window manager features, some of them relate to hardware that is not present, such as a dial up modem.

*shrug*

[eddieg538]

I looked at the bugs from oneline and this seems to be my problem. Now does anyone know if it's safe to remove HAL?

[eddieg538]

Anyone?

[vinnywright]

simulate a purg with apt-get and see what will happen (be removed) "hal" dose not exist on my 14.04 install , but you may have installed something that needed it IDK .

sudo apt-get -s purge hal

and see what it says .

VINNY

[eddieg538]

The following packages will be REMOVED:
hal* thoggen*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Purg thoggen [0.7.1-1ubuntu1]
Purg hal [0.5.14-8]


what on earth is thoggen??

[eddieg538]

I don't think I need it. It's a dvd ripper??

[eddieg538]

I went ahead and purged hal and now it boots correctly and faster. Since this was an upgrade instead of a fresh install I suppose hal was a left over. Thank you all.

[vinnywright]

I went ahead and purged hal and now it boots correctly and faster. Since this was an upgrade instead of a fresh install I suppose hal was a left over. Thank you all.

yes that would be correct (the "left over" part) ......... leftovers can get stale after a wile ,,,,,,,, LOL



VINNY

[SteveRiley]

HAL was deprecated many years ago. The kernel, X, and Udev are much better at detecting and managing hardware.