<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi, I'm facing problems to start the hal daemon. These are the log and softwares versions: HAL package version: 0.5.9.1 UDEV version: 0.105-4 DBUS version: 1.1.1-3 OS Version: Debian etch Kernel: 2.6.23 KDE version: 3.5.7 1) hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes --use-syslog --retain-privileges Oct 10 22:13:12 localhost hald[23884]: 22:13:12.043 [I] hald.c:529: hal 0.5.9.1 Oct 10 22:13:12 localhost hald[23884]: 22:13:12.044 [I] hald.c:538: Will daemonize Oct 10 22:13:12 localhost hald[23884]: 22:13:12.044 [I] hald.c:539: Becoming a daemon Oct 10 22:13:12 localhost hald[23885]: 22:13:12.044 [I] hald_dbus.c:4807: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-NVFk0YtenM,guid=b659db94b58198d724034b00470d78a8 Oct 10 22:13:12 localhost hald[23885]: 22:13:12.045 [E] hald_dbus.c:5086: dbus_bus_get(): Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. 2) lshal command output: error: dbus_bus_get: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. Due to this problem CDs or DVDs are no longer mounted automatically in KDE and  I got an error message saying that the device is available with HAL Regards. Antonio </body> </html>