diff --git a/packages/sysutils/hal/patches/segfault_hal-storage-mount.diff b/packages/sysutils/hal/patches/segfault_hal-storage-mount.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index 831d628a03..0000000000
--- a/packages/sysutils/hal/patches/segfault_hal-storage-mount.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-From e4ac5deba9287ea6b66b7b9c1f4c4d2ee1cc69b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Simon Munton <simon-hal@munton.demon.co.uk>
-Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 16:01:51 +0000
-Subject: fixed segfault in hal-storage-mount
-
-Fixed segfault in hal-storage-mount and don't lose fstype in
-probe-volume.
----
-diff --git a/hald/linux/probing/probe-volume.c b/hald/linux/probing/probe-volume.c
-index 882de88..13c775a 100644
---- a/hald/linux/probing/probe-volume.c
-+++ b/hald/linux/probing/probe-volume.c
-@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ set_blkid_values (LibHalChangeSet *cs, blkid_probe pr)
- 
- 	if (blkid_probe_lookup_value(pr, "TYPE", &type, NULL))
- 		type = "";
--	if (libhal_changeset_set_property_string (cs, "volume.fstype", type))
-+	if (!libhal_changeset_set_property_string (cs, "volume.fstype", type))
- 		libhal_changeset_set_property_string (cs, "volume.fstype", "");
- 	HAL_DEBUG(("volume.fstype = '%s'", type));
- 
-diff --git a/tools/hal-storage-mount.c b/tools/hal-storage-mount.c
-index e48b4b9..78e0160 100644
---- a/tools/hal-storage-mount.c
-+++ b/tools/hal-storage-mount.c
-@@ -786,7 +786,8 @@ handle_mount (LibHalContext *hal_ctx,
- 		/* don't consider uid= on vfat, iso9660, hfs and udf change-uid for the purpose of policy
- 		 * (since these doesn't contain uid/gid bits) 
- 		 */
--		if (strcmp (libhal_volume_get_fstype (volume), "vfat") != 0 &&
-+		if (libhal_volume_get_fstype (volume) != NULL &&
-+		    strcmp (libhal_volume_get_fstype (volume), "vfat") != 0 &&
- 		    strcmp (libhal_volume_get_fstype (volume), "ntfs") != 0 &&
- 		    strcmp (libhal_volume_get_fstype (volume), "ntfs-3g") != 0 &&
- 		    strcmp (libhal_volume_get_fstype (volume), "iso9660") != 0 &&
---
-cgit v0.8.2
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/hal/url b/packages/sysutils/hal/url
index 40b06eb563..594c50eeee 100644
--- a/packages/sysutils/hal/url
+++ b/packages/sysutils/hal/url
@@ -1 +1 @@
-http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/hal-0.5.12.tar.bz2
+http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/hal-0.5.13.tar.bz2