Mouse and keyboard are not working on the system

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • Keyboard and mouse are not working
  • Hal daemon is locking up or failing to start
  • Hal daemon is not running
#cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
...
(EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1

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