Hi! I can confirm this:
shambala> /etc/init.d/dbus stop Stopping network connection manager: NetworkManager. Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: hald. Stopping DHCP D-Bus daemon: dhcdbd. Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon. Stopping system message bus: dbus. shambala> /etc/init.d/dbus start Starting system message bus: dbus. Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon. Starting DHCP D-Bus daemon: dhcdbd. Starting Hardware abstraction layer: haldinvoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed. Starting network connection manager: NetworkManager. shambala> apt-cache depends hal | cut -d: -f2 | grep -v "^hal$" | COLUMNS=72 xargs dpkg -l Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Beschreibung +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii adduser 3.107 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.2.1-2 simple interprocess messaging system ii eject 2.1.4-3 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changers under Li un gnome-device-m <keine> (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) ii hal-info 20080508-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi files ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-2 simple interprocess messaging system ii libdbus-glib-1 0.74-2 simple interprocess messaging system (GLib-b ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3.4 XML parsing C library - runtime library ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-3 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.3-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage 0.5.11~rc2-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - shared library ii libhal1 0.5.11~rc2-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - shared library ii libsmbios-bin 0.12.1-3 Provide access to (SM)BIOS information -- ut ii libsmbios1 0.13.13-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS information -- dy ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-5 userspace USB programming library ii libvolume-id0 0.114-2 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init script function ii mount 2.13.1.1-1 Tools for mounting and manipulating filesyst ii pciutils 1:2.2.4~pre4-1 Linux PCI Utilities ii pm-utils 1.1.0-1 utilities and scripts for power management ii udev 0.114-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemon ii usbutils 0.72-7 USB console utilities Output of strace -o /tmp/strace-hald.txt -fF hald attached. shambala> cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.25.3-tp42-toi-3.0-rc7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-5)) #1 PREEMPT Tue May 13 22:11:05 CEST 2008 This is a showstopper for all applications that use hal do detect insertion of removable media (like Digikam). Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
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