/usr/sbin/hald --verbose=yes --daemon=no says: 11:52:58.849 [I] hald.c:394: hal 0.4.5 11:52:58.849 [I] hald.c:398: Will not daemonize 11:52:58.850 [E] hald_dbus.c:1934: dbus_bus_get(): Failed to connect to socket /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory I tried it with dbus-0.22-r3 and 0.23, with hal-0.4.2-r1 and 0.4.5, the same problem. Dbus opens system_bus_socket on /var/lib/dbus/system_bus_socket Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1,sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.math.bme.hu ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib adns aim alsa apache2 apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bmp bonobo calendar cdr crypt cups doc dts dvd eds encode esd f77 fam fbcon flac font-server foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnome gnomedb gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww live mad mikmod mmx mono motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nntp nptl ogg oggvorbis oss pam pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang smime spell sqlite sse ssl svg svga tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vhosts videos vnc vorbis wxwindows x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib linguas_hu linguas_us linguas_en"
not been playing around with non-gentoo ebuilds or self-building stuff in /usr/local ? what does the dbus system.conf file give as the socket dir?
Yes I had a local dbus. Removing it and reemerging fixed the problem. Sorry
