Bug#379164: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#379164: dbus: fails to start on boot

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 01:16:00PM -0700, Scott Anderson wrote:
> Subject: dbus: fails to start on boot
> Package: dbus
> Version: 0.62-4
> Severity: important
> 
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> 
> When booting, I get the following error in my /var/log/syslog:
> 
> Jul 21 11:28:45 me dhcdbd: dbus_svc_init failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
> Jul 21 11:28:45 me dhcdbd: Failed to initialise D-Bus service.
> Jul 21 11:28:45 me NetworkManager: <information>^Istarting...
> Jul 21 11:28:45 me NetworkManager: <WARNING>^I nm_dbus_init (): nm_dbus_init() could not get the system bus.  Make sure the message bus daemon is running!
> Jul 21 11:28:45 me NetworkManager: <ERROR>^I[1153502925.787542] main (): nm_dbus_init() failed, exiting. Either dbus is not running, or the NetworkManager dbus security policy was not loaded
> Jul 21 11:28:45 me NetworkManager: traceback:
> Jul 21 11:28:45 me NetworkManager: ^I/usr/sbin/NetworkManager(main+0x47e) [0x8067dde]
> Jul 21 11:28:45 me NetworkManager: ^I/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd0) [0xa7c38eb0]
> Jul 21 11:28:45 me NetworkManager: ^I/usr/sbin/NetworkManager [0x8053031]
> 
> Here's some other debug detail:
> 
> > ll /var/run/dbus/
> total 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Jul 21 11:28 pid
> srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 21 11:28 system_bus_socket=
> 
> The socket seems to be there...
> 
> > psg dbus
> me  5904  5817  0 11:29 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session x-session-manager
> me  5905  5817  0 11:29 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session x-session-manager
> me  5908     1  0 11:29 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session x-session-manager
> me  5909     1  0 11:29 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 8 --print-address 6 --session
> me  6684  6418  0 11:59 pts/2    00:00:00 /usr/bin/python2.3 -S /usr/bin/reportbug dbus
> 
> I don't see any dbus-daemon --system.  It should be there, right?

Yeah that should be there. Can you run dbus-daemon --nofork --system manually
(you need to delete the pid file in /var/run/dbus/ first) and see what happens
then (does it stay running?)

  Sjoerd
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