hald not establishing a connection to dbus?

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Hello, everyone, I'm trying to get my system to automatically mount my 
cd-rom drive whenever a disc is inserted.

This is a headless system running Gentoo Linux, with no GUI at all.

These are the packages I've installed
gentoo-dev-sources kernel 2.6.9
udev-045
dbus-0.22-r1 and later 0.22-r2
hal-0.2.98-r1 and later 0.4.1
ivman-0.3

I have udev installed with devfs completely disabled
The dbus and hald init scripts both start without any errors, but upon 
running 'dbus-monitor --system' and ejecting and re-inserting the CD-Rom 
tray, no messages are displayed at all.

Later, I start the dbus daemon from the init script, and start the hald 
daemon manually, I instantly get these startup errors:

coldfire root # /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no
libhal.c 911 : Error sending msg: No property info.category on device 
with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_1_1
libhal.c 911 : Error sending msg: No property info.category on device 
with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_0_0
libhal.c 911 : Error sending msg: No property info.category on device 
with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_0_0
libhal.c 911 : Error sending msg: No property info.category on device 
with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_0_0
libhal.c 911 : Error sending msg: No property info.category on device 
with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_0_0
libhal.c 911 : Error sending msg: No property info.category on device 
with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_0_0
libhal.c 911 : Error sending msg: No property info.category on device 
with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_2_0
libhal.c 911 : Error sending msg: No property info.category on device 
with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_2_0
libhal.c 911 : Error sending msg: No property info.category on device 
with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ide_2_0
libhal.c 911 : Error sending msg: No property info.category on device 
with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer

I have a feeling these have something to do with the messagebus that 
dbus is /supposed/ to set up, but I'm not entirely sure how that 
messagebus is specified in dbus, and the dbus docs (on freedesktop.org) 
seem to be down.

Any help is greatly appreciated, and further debug information will 
graciously be given if asked for.

Thanks guys,
Josh
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