I don't know if it is related to update-rc.d deletes links on upgrades http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386500
but it appeared concurrently. At this moment I still have to restart dbus, acpid and powernowd manually. hald is giving me some further problem apparently caused by: Sep 11 10:43:42 localhost kernel: hcid[5876]: segfault at 0000000000000038 rip 00000000004188f2 rsp 00007fff7da99530 error 4 [*] that doesn't let dbus restart properly. Sometimes /etc/init.d/dbus restart /etc/init.d/acpid restart /etc/init.d/powernowd restart works. Most of the times I've to reboot and find a "lucky moment" to restart dbus. Meanwhile kde lost the ability to automount usb pens (could it be related to hald?). [*] where should I report this problem? generic kernel package? I've an athlon64 x2 box -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]