Comment 25 for bug 8477

(In reply to comment #18)
> ps aux:
> hal 3935 0.0 0.8 5708 4276 ? Ds 15:27 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald
--drop-privileges

Yes, this indeed looks like #1891, closing as a duplicate.

As a remedy, we will ship hal 0.5 in breezy which separates out USB detection to
separate processes, so the main hal process will not hang any more and the USB
detection process will just time out and die after 100 seconds. This will be
much more robust.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8628.