<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY> If you try and start it manually, verbose, non-daemon mode, it says: 12:58:01.873 [I] hald.c:317: hal 0.2.97.cvs20040901 12:58:01.873 [I] hald.c:321: Will not daemonize 12:58:01.875 [E] hald_dbus.c:1922: dbus_bus_get(): Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory Without this running you can't run "Removable Storage" from the preferences. Simon </BODY> </HTML>