Bug#399506: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#399506: many copies of dbus-daemon accumulate

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 09:18:23AM +0000, Greg Kochanski wrote:
> Recently, I have been using ctrl-alt-del to terminate the X-server
> and forcibly log people out who left their screens locked.
> Since then, I have noticed many copies of dbus-daemon
> running (looking via ps).   There are 31 running at the moment.
> 
> I suspect that dbus ignores the terminate signal that the
> X-server sends, or perhaps it doesn't get one.     Whatever
> happens, it needs some mechanism to be terminated.
> 
> Possibly it should detect when there are other copies running?

Well, you need at least 1 session bus per ``X session''. Also if users are
running X apps that use dbus from a remote machine a dbus-daemon process will 
be started (one per remote X session).

Each session bus is indeed supposed to exit when the session closes. So if
there are not as many busses as  X sessions/X apps running remote, you indeed
hit a bug. In that case could you check if there are also a lot of copies of 
dbus-launch still running (say one for each dbus-daemon) ?

  Sjoerd
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