I can confirm this from a LiveCD.
It appears like "invoke-rc.d hald stop" does not halt hald and then
"start" fails ("already/still running").
The following appears to get done:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ sudo invoke-rc.d dbus reload && sudo invoke-rc.d hal
restart
* Reloading system message bus config...
[ OK ]
* Restarting Hardware abstraction layer hald
21:06:06.968 [I] hald.c:669: hal 0.5.11rc2
21:06:06.968 [I] hald.c:734: Will not daemonize
21:06:06.968 [I] hald_dbus.c:5381: local server is listening at
unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-FdcKEXlVVP,guid=4b3674005614331b2cfab5db48236b3e
21:06:06.974 [I] ck-tracker.c:387: got seat '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1'
21:06:06.975 [I] ck-tracker.c:317: got session
'/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1' for seat
'/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1'
21:06:06.977 [I] ck-tracker.c:270: Got active state (ACTIVE) and uid 999 on
session '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1'
21:06:06.981 [I] ck-tracker.c:338: Got all sessions on seat
'/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1'
21:06:06.982 [I] ck-tracker.c:414: Got seats
21:06:06.982 [I] ck-tracker.c:796: Got seats and sessions
Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/lib/hal:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin'
21:06:06.986 [I] hald_runner.c:301: Runner has pid 14587
21:06:06.986 [I] hald_runner.c:182: runner connection is 0x666370
21:06:06.987 [W] osspec.c:373: Unable to open /proc/mdstat: No such file or
directory
21:06:06.992 [I] mmap_cache.c:279: cache mtime is 1210276013
Error binding udev_event socket: Address already in use
invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "restart" failed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ echo $?
1
** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu)
Target: None => ubuntu-8.04.1
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hal doesn't install
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206787
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