haldaemon fails to start with the error "Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused" in /var/log/messages

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • On server boot or when running haldaemon via initscript - hald fails to start:
# /etc/init.d/haldaemon start
Starting HAL daemon:               FAILED
  • When running in the foreground, starting hald is successful or sometimes does not return anything:
# hald --use-syslog --verbose=yes --daemon=no

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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