I have no idea what is going on, I just know HAL won't start.
This is the dump from the syslog when I try to launch HAL manually with sudo 
hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes --use-syslog :

Jul 23 01:12:03 thechair hald[8878]: 01:12:03.164 [I] hald.c:669: hal 0.5.11rc2 
Jul 23 01:12:03 thechair hald[8878]: 01:12:03.164 [I] hald.c:678: Will 
daemonize 
Jul 23 01:12:03 thechair hald[8878]: 01:12:03.164 [I] hald.c:679: Becoming a 
daemon 
Jul 23 01:12:03 thechair hald[8879]: 01:12:03.165 [I] hald_dbus.c:5381: local 
server is listening at 
unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-pG36a71S92,guid=5b592b2f58221802d52ef2f448867753
 
Jul 23 01:12:03 thechair hald[8879]: 01:12:03.169 [I] ck-tracker.c:387: got 
seat '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1' 
Jul 23 01:12:03 thechair hald[8879]: 01:12:03.170 [I] ck-tracker.c:317: got 
session '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1' for seat 
'/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1' 
Jul 23 01:12:03 thechair hald[8879]: 01:12:03.172 [I] ck-tracker.c:270: Got 
active state (ACTIVE) and uid 1000 on session 
'/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1' 
Jul 23 01:12:03 thechair hald[8879]: 01:12:03.172 [I] ck-tracker.c:338: Got all 
sessions on seat '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1' 
Jul 23 01:12:03 thechair hald[8879]: 01:12:03.172 [I] ck-tracker.c:414: Got 
seats 
Jul 23 01:12:03 thechair hald[8879]: 01:12:03.172 [I] ck-tracker.c:796: Got 
seats and sessions 
Jul 23 01:12:03 thechair hald[8879]: 01:12:03.183 [I] hald_runner.c:301: Runner 
has pid 8880 
Jul 23 01:12:03 thechair hald[8879]: 01:12:03.184 [I] hald_runner.c:182: runner 
connection is 0x666c90 
Jul 23 01:12:03 thechair hald[8879]: 01:12:03.184 [W] osspec.c:373: Unable to 
open /proc/mdstat: No such file or directory 
Jul 23 01:12:03 thechair hald[8879]: 01:12:03.190 [I] mmap_cache.c:279: cache 
mtime is 1216768506 

Ring any bells? Shouldn't the /proc/mdstat inexistence be silently
ignored?...

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package hal 0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess 
post-installation script returned error exit status 1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206634
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