Hi!
I couldn't find out how hald is actually started. However just
creating the directory from dbus' init script (as dbus seems to be
involved) does work. I've attached a patch against dbus that fixes my
problems.
Regards
Christoph
diff -Nru dbus-1.2.24/debian/changelog dbus-1.2.24/debian/changelog
--- dbus-1.2.24/debian/changelog 2011-06-14 21:09:38.000000000 +0200
+++ dbus-1.2.24/debian/changelog 2011-07-24 12:44:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+dbus (1.2.24-4+squeeze1.1) stable; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * kfreebsd-fix
+
+ -- Christoph Egger <christ...@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:44:33 +0200
+
dbus (1.2.24-4+squeeze1) stable; urgency=low
* Update Vcs-* control fields to reflect the move to git
diff -Nru dbus-1.2.24/debian/dbus.init dbus-1.2.24/debian/dbus.init
--- dbus-1.2.24/debian/dbus.init 2011-06-12 13:31:16.000000000 +0200
+++ dbus-1.2.24/debian/dbus.init 2011-07-24 12:45:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
PIDDIR=/var/run/dbus
PIDFILE=$PIDDIR/pid
DESC="system message bus"
+HALDPIDDIR=/var/run/hald
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
@@ -50,6 +51,12 @@
chgrp $DAEMONUSER $PIDDIR
fi
+ if [ ! -d $HALDPIDDIR ]; then
+ mkdir -p $HALDPIDDIR
+ chown $DAEMONUSER $HALDPIDDIR
+ chgrp $DAEMONUSER $HALDPIDDIR
+ fi
+
if ! mountpoint -q /proc/ ; then
log_failure_msg "Can't start $DESC - /proc is not mounted"
return
