Comment 72 for bug 335297

I am also getting the non-responsive keyboard/mouse. Dual Opteron, 64-bit Ubuntu desktop 9.04. Worked fine until the latest update and reboot. Xorg.0.log seems to indicate hald hadn't started. I ssh'd into the machine to see that indeed hald hadn't started. I have tried reinstalling hal and hal-info to no effect. The /etc/init.d/hal script looks fine and the symlink (S24hal) is in rc2.d. I can manually start it with 'sudo /etc/rc2.d/S24hal start' . Once manually started, all seems to work fine. I am at a loss as to why it doesn't start automatically.

running 'sudo hald --daemon=no --use-syslog --verbose=yes' gives a few error messages about an acl-list problem (error opening/creating /var/run/hald/acl-list).

Not sure if that is important.