HAL broken after upgrade to FC3

[Muyiwa Taiwo]

I upgraded to kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 a couple of weeks ago from 
2.6.9-1.667, and also upgraded HAL to 0.4.7-1.FC3.  Since then, HAL has 
stopped working.  On system start, it shows that it starts normally, but 
it actually dies silently (as revealed by "service haldaemon status", 
which shows that hald is stopped).  The effect of this is that my USB 
drives (hard disks, floppy, memory disk, camera, etc., are no longer 
automatically mounted when they're plugged in.  I can mount them 
manually, but that means that I've got to go to System Logs to find out 
what they're called.

I've tried re-installing HAL 0.4.0-10, but this didn't help.  I've also 
downloaded and run the latest initscripts, still no show.  I've searched 
numerous mailing lists, but there doesn't seem to be a fix.  Am I 
looking in the wrong places?

My configuration is:

- Toshiba TE2000 laptop
- udev-039-10.FC3.7
- hotplug-2004_04_01-8.1
- hal-0.4.7-1.FC3
- kernel: 2.6.10-1.770.FC3

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

MT