hal 0.5.0 "The family had a lot of buffers." release

[Matthew Burgess]

David Zeuthen wrote:
 > I've just released hal 0.5.0 - it's may be a bit rough around the
 > edges and there are some things like .fdi files for cameras that I
 > need to put in (the patch is *still* on this mailing list, sorry).

Apologies for a potentially newbie question, but I get the following 
when trying to startup 'hald':

*** [DIE] osspec.c:osspec_init():328 : Unable to bind to netlink socket

Running 'hald' through 'strace' I see the following:

socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_DGRAM, 15)      = 7
getpid()                                = 6485
bind(7, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=6485, groups=ffffffff}, 12) = -1 
EPERM (Operation not permitted)

Any ideas what's going on here?  My initial guess is that the netlink 
socket is already in use by some other process, though I can't think 
what that might be, or how I could find out.

Thanks for any help you can provide,

Matt.
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