[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#521437: Reinstalled Hal, now can't boot.

[Cody Christopher]

Package: hal, bootchart
Version: unknown.
Severity: critical

I ran "sudo aptitude reinstall hal", and as per the command, hal
reinstalled. Followed by some weird messages, which made absolutely no sense
to me, and unfortunately I forgot to copy them...

Anyway, the next couple of reboots worked fine, until I tried to run a
bootchart. I added init=/sbin/bootchartd to the appropiate place in menu.lst
in /boot/grub/ and rebooted (a note, bootchart was running fine before the
hal reinstall) - I can't get past booting now, X, gdm, hal and pretty much
every other package fail to initialize in a massive string of errors most of
which say 'rm: cannot remove ....."  (I can't ever see the ...... it scrolls
away too quickly). After everything fails I'm still given a console login,
but the entire system is still in read-only mode (probably why all the rm's
failed).

I can't find any of these messages in any of the log files in /var/log/ and
have no idea what I can to try and fix this - nor do I have any idea which
log I should submit to assist with investigating this. I've run a live USB
install which has allowed me to remove the init=/sbin/bootchartd from grub,
but this makes no difference...

I'm running the debian EEEpc distribution, on an EEE 701 with 4gb SSD.

help?
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