Comment 12 for bug 24029

I have a ASUS A6KM (AMD64) laptop and what I have noticed is that if I don't plug in the AC adapter, HAL seems to work, and I don't get this message. I can also run commands such as lshal.

However when I plug in the AC adapter, or if I boot with the AC adapter, I'll get this message "Failed to Initialize HAL". If running lshal I get this:

error: libhal_ctx_init: (null): (null)
Could not initialise connection to hald.
 Normally this mean the HAL daemon (hald) is not running or not ready.

if I do ps -ax, this is the state of my hal processes:

4359 ? Ds 0:02 /usr/sbin/hald
 4360 ? S 0:00 hald-runner
 4366 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-acpi
 4369 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-keyboard
 4372 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-keyboard
 4382 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-keyboard
 4396 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-storage