Bug#396811: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#396811: prerm script calls /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon directly

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:04:01AM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 01:15:13AM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > The postint script is doing just the same thing, with the line
> > before it doing the right thing:
> > 
> >     # Ask the bus to reload the config file
> >     if [ -x "/etc/init.d/dbus" ]; then
> >       invoke-rc.d dbus force-reload || true
> >     fi
> >     /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart
> > 
> > Since the policy doesn't allow dbus to get started, avahi-daemon
> > also failed to start.
> 
> No the postinst script does the right thing. Why ? Because avahi isn't normally
> started via the normal /etc/rc*.d symlink, so invoke-rc.d just doesn't work for
> avahi. 

So, avahi shouldn't be run (or stopped) in any runlevel, but should
always run anyway?

> Putting avahi in both /etc/init.d/ and /etc/dbus/event.d was a choice of
> the original packager, which has both it's good and bad sides :) 

If I understand you right, dbus should start it for you?  Then I don't
understand why you need to start it in the first place, specially not in
the postinst.

If dbus doesn't start it when it should, I think dbus needs to be fixed.


Kurt