ubuntu 8.04 hardware abstraction layer HALD hangs

[xinchen]

hi,all 
   my system is :
   IBM T43-2668-6cu 
   linux kernel:  2.6.24-24-generic
   ubuntu8.04.4
when system is started the system hangs at "Starting Hardware
abstraction layer hald". after 5 minutes ,i get an error message after
logging in with gdm saying "failed to initialize HAL ", There are the
symlinks to gdm and hal in /ete/rc*


$ ls -l /etc/rc*/*hal
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2010-02-03 18:38 /etc/rc1.d/K12hal
-> ../init.d/hal
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2010-02-03 18:38 /etc/rc2.d/S13hal
-> ../init.d/hal
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2010-02-03 18:38 /etc/rc3.d/S12hal
-> ../init.d/hal
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2010-02-03 18:38 /etc/rc4.d/S12hal
-> ../init.d/hal
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2010-02-03 18:38 /etc/rc5.d/S12hal
-> ../init.d/hal
$ ls -l /etc/rc*/*gdm*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-11-05 10:31 /etc/rc0.d/K01gdm
-> ../init.d/gdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-11-05 10:31 /etc/rc1.d/K01gdm
-> ../init.d/gdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-11-05 10:31 /etc/rc2.d/S30gdm
-> ../init.d/gdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-11-05 10:31 /etc/rc3.d/S30gdm
-> ../init.d/gdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-11-05 10:31 /etc/rc4.d/S30gdm
-> ../init.d/gdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-11-05 10:31 /etc/rc5.d/S30gdm
-> ../init.d/gdm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-11-05 10:31 /etc/rc6.d/K01gdm
-> ../init.d/gdm

i try reinstall hal as well ,but nothing changed except for dpkg errors.

xinchen at IBM-laptop:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up hal (0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu8.3) ...
 * Reloading system message bus config...
Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Failed to connect to
socket /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or
directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed.
polkit-auth: This operation requires the system message bus and
ConsoleKit to be running
polkit-auth: AuthorizationAlreadyExists: An authorization for uid 111
for the action org.freedesktop.policykit.read with constraint '' already
exists
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-device-manager:
 gnome-device-manager depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-device-manager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-mount:
 gnome-mount depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-mount (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-volume-manager:
 gnome-volume-manager depends on gnome-mount; however:
  Package gnome-mount is not configured yet.
 gnome-volume-manager depends on hal (>= 0.5.5.1); however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-volume-manager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of update-notifier:
 update-notifier depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing update-notifier (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager:
 network-manager depends on hal (>= 0.5.7.1); however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
network-manager-gnome:
 network-manager-gnome depends on network-manager (>= 0.6.5); however:
  Package network-manager is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager-gnome (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-power-manager:
 gnome-power-manager depends on hal (>= 0.5.10); however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-power-manager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sound-juicer:
 sound-juicer depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing sound-juicer (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hal-cups-utils:
 hal-cups-utils depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hal-cups-utils (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-session:
 gnome-session depends on gnome-power-manager; however:
  Package gnome-power-manager is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-session (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 hal
 gnome-device-manager
 gnome-mount
 gnome-volume-manager
 update-notifier
 network-manager
 network-manager-gnome
 gnome-power-manager
 sound-juicer
 hal-cups-utils
 gnome-session