Comment 8 for bug 19577

(In reply to comment #7)
> I run 2.6.12-8-k7 in Breezy and have problems with hald not being started upon
> boot aswell. I have not yet looked into it more detailed (and sort of lacks the
> skills aswell), but it seems to not being started since when i log into gnome, I
> get a message about hald not being run (Like the first comment on this bugreport).

OK, judging from some discussions on #ubuntu this still seems to be an issue.
Can you please create a full hal debug output as described in the second half of
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices ? Thanks