[solved] HAL problem

Hi everyone!
I booted my main machine this morning to find no network connection, further investigation reveals that HAL is not running.
I checked out a few threads on the forum regarding using the verbose switch to get some output and here is what I get (shortened because there is a lot!)
device_info.c:1109: Unhandled rule (0) !
device_info.c:1109: Unhandled rule (312) !
Segmentation fault
I don't think anything has changed since it worked yesterday, I moved some partitions around and changed their sizes but everything else seems fine and I cant see how that would affect HAL? (or maybe it would??)
Thanks in advance for any advice
Edit: Removed HAL and re-installed for about the 7th time worked for some reason. (Persistence pays off!)
Last edited by scottuss (2009-03-03 15:59:24)

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