On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 04:24, Kiran Kumar wrote: > It seems udev is being invoked as I found by > replacing /sbin/udev with a shell script. My > understanding is udev when invoked sends a dbus > notification via the dbus daemon which is used by > hald. (Correct me if this is not the case). This is your problem. udev, by default, does not send out D-BUS signals. You need to recompile with USE_DBUS enabled. We (Ximian) are going to be releasing packages of all of these components very soon, setup and patched as needed to work seamlessly. Rob Love -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/