diff -urN gnome-volume-manager-1.3.3.orig/src/manager.c gnome-volume-manager-1.3.3/src/manager.c
--- gnome-volume-manager-1.3.3.orig/src/manager.c	2005-07-25 13:32:13.000000000 -0500
+++ gnome-volume-manager-1.3.3/src/manager.c	2005-07-25 13:36:01.000000000 -0500
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@
 #define NAUTILUS_COMMAND	 BIN_NAUTILUS" -n --no-desktop %m"
 
 static struct gvm_configuration config;
-static LibHalContext *hal_ctx;
+static LibHalContext *hal_ctx = NULL;
+static DBusConnection *dbus_connection = NULL;
 
 #ifndef ASSUME_SUBMOUNT
 /** Table of UDI's for volumes being mounted by g-v-m that we need to apply policy to */
@@ -1379,6 +1380,73 @@
 {
 }
 
+static LibHalContext * gvm_do_hal_init ();
+
+/** Invoked by gvm_do_filter_dbus_msg in response to a D-BUS disconnect event.
+ *
+ * @param  data                 Context pointer
+ * @return true if it should be tried again, false if success or failure.
+ */
+static gboolean
+gvm_reconnect_to_hal (gpointer data __attribute__((__unused__)))
+{
+       static unsigned int retries = 0;
+       DBusError error;
+
+       dbg ("Trying a reconnect ...\n");
+       hal_ctx = gvm_do_hal_init ();
+       if (hal_ctx != NULL) {
+               dbg ("Reconnected OK.\n");
+               retries = 0;
+               return FALSE;
+       } else if (dbus_connection){
+               /* shut down dbus connection to try it again */
+               dbus_connection_unref (dbus_connection);
+               dbus_connection = NULL;
+       }
+
+       /* Retry later if it failed. */
+       if (retries++ < 100)
+               return TRUE;
+
+       /* Too many retries; clean up and bail. */
+       warn("gvm_reconnect_to_hal: no reconnection after 100 retries, exiting\n");
+       libhal_ctx_shutdown (hal_ctx, &error);
+       libhal_ctx_free (hal_ctx);
+       hal_ctx = NULL;
+       gtk_main_quit ();
+       return FALSE;
+}
+
+/** Invoked by D-BUS to filter messages.
+ *
+ * @param  connection  D-BUS connection
+ * @param  message     D-BUS message
+ * @param  user_data   Context pointer
+ */
+static DBusHandlerResult
+gvm_do_filter_dbus_msg (DBusConnection *connection __attribute__((__unused__)),
+                        DBusMessage *message,
+                        void *user_data __attribute__((__unused__)))
+{
+       DBusError error;
+       
+       if (dbus_message_is_signal (message,
+                                   DBUS_INTERFACE_LOCAL,
+                                   "Disconnected")) {
+               dbg("gvm_do_filter_dbus_msg: received Disconnected message\n");
+               g_timeout_add(500, gvm_reconnect_to_hal, NULL);
+               libhal_ctx_shutdown (hal_ctx, &error);
+               libhal_ctx_free (hal_ctx);
+               hal_ctx = NULL;
+               dbus_connection_unref (dbus_connection);
+               dbus_connection = NULL;
+               return DBUS_HANDLER_RESULT_HANDLED;
+       }
+       else
+               return DBUS_HANDLER_RESULT_NOT_YET_HANDLED;
+}
+
 /** Integrate a dbus mainloop. 
  *
  *  @param  ctx                 LibHal context
@@ -1389,14 +1457,15 @@
 static dbus_bool_t 
 hal_mainloop_integration (LibHalContext *ctx, DBusError *error)
 {
-	DBusConnection *dbus_connection;
-
 	dbus_connection = dbus_bus_get (DBUS_BUS_SYSTEM, error);
 
 	if (dbus_error_is_set (error))
 		return FALSE;
+
+        dbus_connection_set_exit_on_disconnect (dbus_connection, FALSE);
 	
         dbus_connection_setup_with_g_main (dbus_connection, NULL);
+        dbus_connection_add_filter (dbus_connection, gvm_do_filter_dbus_msg, NULL, NULL);
 
 	libhal_ctx_set_dbus_connection (ctx, dbus_connection);
 	
@@ -1556,6 +1625,10 @@
 	DBusError error;
 	GSList *l;
 	
+        if (ctx == NULL) {
+            warn("unmount_all: No hal connection! can't unmount volumes\n");
+            return;
+        }
 	dbg ("unmounting all volumes that we saw mounted in our life\n");
 	dbus_error_init (&error);
 	for (l = mounted_volumes; l != NULL; l = g_slist_next (l)) {