Problems with hal, devices and udev

[Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <lepalom@wol.es>]

Hi,

I have two boxes with a mix version of etch and sid. I would like to have kde 
3.5 and the feature to plug a pen drive and appears a magical windows asking 
you what do want to do. However, I have two problems and really, after 
googling some time, I don't have any idea to solve it.

The packages:
....
ii  linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp    2.6.15-2 
in another without smp, but I don't think that it's an important issue.
ii  hal                             0.5.5.1-5 
ii  hal-device-manager              0.5.5.1-5 
ii  libhal-storage1                 0.5.5.1-5     
ii  libhal1                         0.5.5.1-5           

and a kde3.5

in the fstab no /sys, etc .

First, when the box is booting, it stoped in:
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd

in both boxes
so I have to ctrl+c to continue booting and finally, the the kdm is up, 
manually do a /etc/init.d/udev start without any problem. Why?

And second, I can plug a device, it appears in syslog, etc, but no windows 
appears. What I'm doing wrong?

Regards,


Leo