Same here, but solved.
I started hald manually:
$ sudo /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
and got this error:
*** [DIE] mmap_cache.c:di_rules_init():68 : Unable to open cache
/var/cache/hald/fdi-cache
Looking at the directory /var/cache/hald/ I found a backup copy of fd-cache (
I guess it was a backup as the filename was fd-cache~ ) and renamed it to
fd-cache (the file hald is looking for):
$ sudo mv /var/cache/hald/fd-cache~ /var/cache/hald/fd-cache
Alternatively regenerating the cache works too:
$ sudo /usr/lib/hal/hald-generate-fdi-cache
15:00:38.314 [I] create_cache.c:611: Loading rules
15:01:20.211 [I] create_cache.c:677: preprobe: offset=00000014, size=347312
15:01:20.212 [I] create_cache.c:679: information: offset=00054cc4,
size=117484
15:01:20.212 [I] create_cache.c:681: policy: offset=000717b0, size=27916
15:01:20.212 [I] create_cache.c:683: Generating rules done (occupying 492732
bytes)
Now hald service starts correctly:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart
* Restarting Hardware abstraction layer hald
[ OK ]
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[Gutsy] HAL won't start
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