ah damn, I killed hall due to bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/81915 however when executing above mentioned command I got the following message: rick at rickubuntu:~$ sudo /etc/dbus/event.d/20hal start sudo: /etc/dbus/event.d/20hal: command not found -- hald not running https://launchpad.net/bugs/81973