Problem launching hald

[Artem Kachitchkine]

> Jan 11 00:13:29 [hald] 00:13:29.270 [E] hald_dbus.c:3258: 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._

Just to be sure, have you restarted the system D-Bus daemon or rebooted 
after installing HAL?

-Artem.