My issues are now 1/2 fixed. I used to get an unusable system -- starting hald would kill all getties and X sessions.
After upgrading, it just runs for a while, and then dies. I am running dapper/amd64 and I see the same output as Dennis. -- Hald won't start after latest updates https://launchpad.net/bugs/43962 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs