Bug#383963: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#383963: dbus: hald fails to start on boot, but starts fine after

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:40:52PM -0400, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> Package: dbus
> Version: 0.62-4
> Severity: important
> 
> By default, dbus installs its init script at S20.  While at this level,
> it would consistently fail to start hald during boot.  However, if dbus
> was restarted (via restart or stop/start) it would succeed in starting
> the hald process.  Experimentation led me to move the startup point for
> dbus and I found that it works fine at S21 or higher.  I know this
> sounds strange, but I believe the problem lies with my system's use of
> LDAP.  The nscd daemon also starts at S20.  If I stop nscd and then try
> to restart dbus, hald fails to start.  However, as long as nscd is
> running hald starts fine.

Thanks for your experimentation! I guess this is related to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376426. Could you try to
downgrade libnss-ldap (version 238-1.2 works for me) to and see if it fixes 
things? 

Also might be interesting to see if you have the same issue as the
reporter and myself (can't login if nscd is not running)

I'll probably move dbus to S21 or something later on, having nscd running when
dbus is started is indeed nice to have (Should save some ldap queries on system
startup). But in the end the root cause needs to be fixed, not dbus..

TIA,
  Sjoerd
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