I'm seeing this same, but on the contrary i don't have mdadm running, neither lvm or device-mapper modules loaded.
The crash is basically the same, this is the output of hald --verbose=yes --daemon=no I already opened a crash report agains hal (at freedesktop) a month ago or so, but nothing happend so far (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11767 ) 21:15:14.179 [I] hald.c:634: hal 0.5.10 21:15:14.179 [I] hald.c:699: Will not daemonize 21:15:14.180 [I] hald_dbus.c:5284: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-iSk3TgrDV3,guid=f48685a8233a05fbfe0fbd0047321cd2 Runner started - allowed paths are '/usr/lib/hal:/usr/lib/hal/scripts:/usr/bin' 21:15:14.188 [I] hald_runner.c:301: Runner has pid 1888 21:15:14.189 [W] ci-tracker.c:299: Could not get uid for connection: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner Could not get UID of name 'org.freedesktop.DBus': no such name 21:15:14.189 [E] hald_dbus.c:4944: Cannot get caller info for org.freedesktop.DBus 21:15:14.189 [I] hald_runner.c:182: runner connection is 0x8099958 21:15:14.190 [W] osspec.c:326: Unable to open /proc/mdstat: No such file or directory 21:15:14.192 [I] mmap_cache.c:282: cache mtime is 1194466511 21:15:14.192 [I] mmap_cache.c:83: preprobe: offset=00000014, size=348240 21:15:14.192 [I] mmap_cache.c:85: information: offset=00055064, size=118264 21:15:14.192 [I] mmap_cache.c:87: policy: offset=00071e5c, size=32484 21:15:14.193 [I] osspec.c:705: got 1002:5460 as primary videocard Run started hal-system-power-pm-is-supported (10000) (0) ! full path is '/usr/lib/hal/hal-system-power-pm-is-supported', program_dir is '/usr/lib/hal' 21:15:14.204 [I] hald_dbus.c:5243: *************************** 21:15:14.204 [I] hald_dbus.c:5244: ********* got a connection 80a1d98 21:15:14.204 [I] hald_dbus.c:5245: *************************** 21:15:14.263 [I] hald_dbus.c:1285: power_management.can_suspend -> True 21:15:14.263 [I] hald_dbus.c:1285: power_management.can_suspend_hybrid -> True 21:15:14.263 [I] hald_dbus.c:1285: power_management.can_hibernate -> True 21:15:14.264 [I] hald_dbus.c:5186: ************************ 21:15:14.264 [I] hald_dbus.c:5187: Client to local_server was disconnected for 80a1d98 21:15:14.264 [I] hald_dbus.c:5188: ************************ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]