home:/home/stephen # hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
11:44:20.720 [I] hald.c:680: hal 0.5.13
11:44:20.720 [I] hald.c:681: using child timeout 250s
11:44:20.720 [I] hald.c:746: Will not daemonize
11:44:20.721 [I] hald_dbus.c:5421: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-n5jao67bFA,guid=1c91a6820fcee255e31956460000018c
11:44:20.728 [I] ck-tracker.c:391: got seat '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1'
11:44:20.729 [I] ck-tracker.c:321: got session '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1' for seat '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1'
11:44:20.734 [I] ck-tracker.c:274: Got active state (ACTIVE) and uid 1000 on session '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1'
11:44:20.734 [I] ck-tracker.c:342: Got all sessions on seat '/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Seat1'
11:44:20.734 [I] ck-tracker.c:418: Got seats
11:44:20.734 [I] ck-tracker.c:816: Got seats and sessions
Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/lib/hal:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin'
11:44:20.739 [I] hald_runner.c:301: Runner has pid 6459
11:44:20.739 [I] hald_runner.c:182: runner connection is 0x80af1e8
11:44:20.743 [I] mmap_cache.c:278: cache mtime is 1286449178
Error binding udev_event socket: Address already in use
home:/home/stephen # gparted
Could not initialise connection to hald.
Normally this means the HAL daemon (hald) is not running or not ready.
home:/home/stephen #