Hal not starting

Question

hal will not start, it's in my daemons to start automaticaly but it isnt. And it won't start manualy either. I had a kernel update to day when I ran pacman -Syu...perhaps this is the culprit? I rebooted and when I came back my SD cards or camera wouldnt read. So I checked dbus, which is fine...but when I try to 'restart' or 'start' hal...it says fail. Does anyone know what might be the problem?

Answer 1

actually my hal wont start up either: here is my output from the command posted above:
[issue@kiwi ~]$ su
Password:
[root@kiwi issue]# /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
11:45:44.180 [i] hald.c:532: hal 0.5.9
11:45:44.181 [i] hald.c:597: Will not daemonize
11:45:44.181 [i] hald_dbus.c:4806: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-aDctstWO8y,guid=6f041cbe1d98bd9a82f26200465ac0e8
11:45:44.184 [i] hald_runner.c:299: Runner has pid 5677
11:45:44.185 [W] ci-tracker.c:200: Could not get uid for connection: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner Could not get UID of name 'org.freedesktop.DBus': no such name
11:45:44.186 [E] hald_dbus.c:4461: Cannot get caller info for org.freedesktop.DBus
Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/lib/hal:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin'
11:45:44.186 [i] hald_runner.c:180: runner connection is 0x80914d0
11:45:44.187 [i] mmap_cache.c:251: cache mtime is 1178365286
Error binding udev_event socket: Address already in use
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