Comment 74 for bug 335297

I had intrepid ubuntu server 8.10. Upgraded to jaunty 9.04 and rebooted.

Mouse and keyboard was non-responsive at login screen of gnome. My computer was a dead duck.

I took the installation CD and mounted the HD to a shell only session so I could use the keyboard.
There was no hal process (ps -edalf|grep hal).

The commands that I think helped me was:

apt-get -f install # took quite some time
apt-get --reinstall install hal hal-info

I then rebooted, and It worked. I did a dist-upgrade and rebooted again. Only problem was that Firefox complained about google not reachable. I restarted Firefox and now my Ubuntu jaunty seems to work.

The full sequence of commands I typed in the recovery shell was:

apt-get --reinstall install dbus # FAILED!
apt-get --reinstall install hal hal-info #FAILED!
apt-get -f install # took quite some time
apt-get --reinstall install hal hal-info

The commands commented with "FAILED!" requested me to run "apt-get -f install", which seemed to do the trick.

I'm using an Intel Pentium (2 cores, 2500 I think) and ps mouse and keyboard (green + lilac connectors).