Bug#481645: system-tools-backends: postinst appears to start the wrong service

[Mike Bird]

On Sat May 17 2008 13:42:52 Loïc Minier wrote:
>  Are you seeing a bug / issue / problem on your system or did you just
>  guess this could be an error?

I was working on #447361.  While doing so I noticed this probable bug.

I have not noticed a problem directly attributable to system-tools-
-backends starting the wrong service, which is why I wrote "appears
to start the wrong service".

>  I think the intent is really to restart / force-relaod dbus because STB
>  starts with dbus, like network manager for example, so I don't see the
>  issue here.

My reading of dbus force-reload is that reload_it sends a message
to dbus to hopefully cause dbus to reexamine its config file.  I
see nothing there to start system-tools-backends.  Perhaps dbus
restart was intended?

That force-reload does not start system-tools-backends is
trivially verifiable:

# ps ax | grep '[s]ystem-tools-backends'
 3961 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/system-tools-backends
# /etc/init.d/system-tools-backends stop
Stopping System Tools Backends: system-tools-backends.
# ps ax | grep '[s]ystem-tools-backends'
# invoke-rc.d dbus force-reload
Reloading system message bus config...done.
# ps ax | grep '[s]ystem-tools-backends'
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--Mike Bird