Are you still having the problem? What is the ouput of "hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes"? Maybe this is related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/114427.
Are you still having the problem? What is the ouput of "hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes"? /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ hal/+bug/ 114427.
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