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

[Scott Anderson]

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?

> ll /etc/init.d/dbus*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2545 Jun 28 11:24 /etc/init.d/dbus


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (900, 'oldstable'), (900, 'unstable'), (900, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (600, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages dbus depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.95       Add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils                   2.16.2     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-2                   0.62-4     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                     1.95.8-3.2 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libice6                       1:1.0.0-3  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libsm6                        1:1.0.0-4  X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.0-7  X11 client-side library
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-10     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

dbus recommends no packages.

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