On Saturday 20 of September 2014 11:50:40 Felmon Davis wrote:
> greets!
>
> so I see there's no hal in '/etc/init.d'!
>
> apt-get says the latest version is installed.
>
> I'm considering removing hal and reinstalling it. seems quite risky
> given everything that's associated with it.
>
> I cannot rip up this machine too much though, not in busy season.
>
> how should I proceed to restore hald?
>
> F.

Absence init script for hald is not a fault - is initialized from dbus daemon. 
The question is, what's your kernel version - from distribution or backports?

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Slavek