Answering your questions: Yes, dbus is running. No, there's no other instance of hald running. Everytime I checked by "/etc/init.d/hal stop". It said hal is not running.
All the situation appeared when I was trying to install kdebase package. Everything went well and then postconfiguration of hal crashed, as I pasted in my bug report. As You adviced me I tried to run "hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes". It gave me something like this: ---CUT--- 63 [I] hald_dbus.c:4807: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-1PUH6Dqaf2,guid=d0f9953fae1753f4e5e2f$ Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/lib/hal:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin' 20:17:53.267 [I] hald_runner.c:299: Runner has pid 2088 20:17:53.267 [W] ci-tracker.c:200: Could not get uid for connection: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner Could not get$ 20:17:53.267 [E] hald_dbus.c:4462: Cannot get caller info for org.freedesktop.DBus 20:17:53.268 [I] hald_runner.c:180: runner connection is 0x8092918 20:17:53.269 [I] mmap_cache.c:251: cache mtime is 1185387318 *** [DIE] osspec.c:watch_fdi_files():349 : Unable to initialize inotify: Function not implemented ---CUT--- Then I tried "/etc/init.d/dbus stop" and again "hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes". I got this: ---CUT--- 20:47:14.161 [I] hald.c:529: hal 0.5.9.1 20:47:14.161 [I] hald.c:594: Will not daemonize 20:47:14.162 [I] hald_dbus.c:4807: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-DFvoICHOK2,guid=0f04fbf2699bc02cb6b9450046a79ab2 20:47:14.162 [E] hald_dbus.c:5086: dbus_bus_get(): Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory ---CUT--- So I tried to "apt-get remove hal" and install hal again, with dbus not running. ---CUT--- Reloading system message bus config...Failed to open connection to system message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed. ---CUT-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
