hald keeps dying

[Marcus Schuetz]

I have been having this problem for a while, but even with the latest 
version (hal-0.2.98.cvs20040929-3) the haldaemon doesn't seem able to 
stay alive :-)

The relevant part of the strace seems to be :
......
read(5, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\"?> <!-- -*- SGML 
-*- --> \n\n<!-- This configuration file con"..., 1582) = 1582
_llseek(5, 1582, [1582], SEEK_SET)      = 0
close(5)                                = 0
munmap(0xf6fff000, 4096)                = 0
socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 5
connect(5, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket"}, 
110) = 0fcntl64(5, F_GETFL)                     = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
fcntl64(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)  = 0
fcntl64(5, F_GETFD)                     = 0
fcntl64(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
getuid32()                              = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
select(6, [], [5], [5], NULL)           = 1 (out [5])
write(5, "\0", 1)                       = 1
write(5, "AUTH EXTERNAL Aw==\r\n", 20)  = 20
select(6, [5], [], [5], NULL)           = 1 (in [5])
read(5, "ERROR \"Invalid hex encoding\"\r\n", 2048) = 30
select(6, [], [5], [5], NULL)           = 1 (out [5])
write(5, "CANCEL\r\n", 8)               = 8
select(6, [5], [], [5], NULL)           = 1 (in [5])
read(5, "ERROR \"Not currently in an auth conversation\"\r\n", 2048) = 47
select(6, [], [5], [5], NULL)           = 1 (out [5])
write(5, "CANCEL\r\n", 8)               = 8
select(6, [5], [], [5], NULL)           = 1 (in [5])

and the last 4 lines continue indefinitely. Anybody else seen this and 
can offer a solution?

Thanks,

Marcus