Comment 4 for bug 191672

Look, this is an ps command booting with out the devices plugged:
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rolando@defiant:~$ ps -aux | grep hal
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
107 4647 0.0 0.0 2164 904 ? S 11:44 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event1
107 4648 0.0 0.0 2164 896 ? S 11:44 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event6
root 4661 0.0 0.0 3156 1112 ? S 11:44 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-cpufreq
107 4662 0.0 0.0 2160 928 ? S 11:44 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
107 4666 0.0 0.0 2164 892 ? S 11:44 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event7
107 4667 0.0 0.0 2160 892 ? S 11:44 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event8
107 4888 0.0 0.0 3264 1192 ? S 11:44 0:00 hald-addon-storage: no polling because /dev/scd0 is locked via HAL
rolando 8574 0.0 0.0 2992 780 pts/3 R+ 13:41 0:00 grep hal