Comment 22 for bug 269651

Please also take a look at the terminal output I got:

thomas@thomas:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure hal
Failed to open connection to system message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket:
Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed.
polkit-auth: This operation requires the system message bus and Consolekit to be running
/usr/lib/policykit/polkit-read-auth-helper: symbol
lookup error: /usr/lib/policykit/polkit-read-auth-helper:
undefined symbol: kit-getpwnam
polkit-auth: Not Authorized To Read Authorizations For Other Users:
uid 0 is not authorized to read authorizations for uid 111
(requires org.freedesktop.policykit.read)
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$
update-rc.d: warning: multiuser is deprecated ; specify runlevels manually

This is the root terminal output of dpkg-reconfigure hal. It is a long shot but I am drawing your attention to this as it is also a dbus error. This means it is suitable for a Valgrind backtrace and is possibly memory related, am I correct? I had a lot of memory errors and another dbus error I reported here: Bug #270330. It came back a lot after a fatal crash during the alfas. Possibly I can log this through Valgrind with my alfa 3 cd.