HAL 0.4.8 vs. KDE 3.4.2: install OK, but daemon won't run

[Niki Kovacs]

Hi,

I'm currently working through this tutorial, which I think has gained some
celebrity:

http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=DBUS

According to the author, KDE 3.4.2 (the one I have on my Slack 10.2) only
supports HAL up to 0.4.8. On another install I had the latest (well, 0.5.6)
which worked very well with the latest XFCE and Thunar filemanager.

So I built and installed HAL 0.4.8. This process went well. Unfortunately, the
daemon won't start. When I run /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes, I get... nothing.
The output of ps aux | grep -i hal gives nothing.

Now I'm clueless. What to look for next?

Cheers,

Niki