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Jul 28 2008

Hellish Annoying Layer

Posted by: bigbolshevik in Ubuntu

HAL is a project of freedesktop.org, that attempts to provide an modern, usable interface between computer hardware and the Linux desktop. HAL stands for "Hardware Abstraction Layer", but I believe it should be called "Hellish Annoying Layer".

Why? Well, Ubuntu Feisty shipped with a broken version of HAL that caused problems with mounting and unmounting volumes. It was fixed relatively quickly, but for people with limited internet connections who don’t automatically keep their systems up-to-date, it was frustrating.

The other day, Gnome crashed on startup, and afterward Network Manager wouldn’t find either of my Ethernet ports nor my wireless card. I had to configure the wireless network manually (with the traditional "Networking" panel GUI). I couldn’t understand it.

Then today I tried inserting CDs, but they wouldn’t mount. Nautilus froze when a disc was inserted. I tried reinstalling HAL before finding the "lshal" command, which said that HAL wasn’t running. I started HAL manually, logged out and logged back in again, and now I’m happily ripping CDs. I suspect Network Manager would work again.

Also, I was surprised to find that the last release version of Network Manager was over a year ago. I thought this software was still buggy enough, and limited enough, to warrant constant development?

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