Comment 5 for bug 375169

Out of frustration I ‘apt-get remove hal’ and reinstalled it. Now, thanks to the ‘--background’-hack in /etc/init.d/hal at least the computer boots. But since I removed hal, all the packages that depended on it went as well, and the computer only boots to the command prompt - not the desktop.

Any quick meta-package or anything similar i can install to get the desktop back?