Bug#422742: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#422742: dbus init script gives errors on start

[Michael Biebl]

Alistair Phipps wrote:
> Package: dbus
> Version: 1.0.2-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Starting dbus results in the following error messages:
> 
> /etc/init.d/dbus restart
> grep: /etc/rc2.d/S20inetd: No such file or directory
> Stopping system message bus: dbus.
> Starting system message bus: dbusUnknown group "netdev" in message bus
> configuration file
> ..
> grep: /etc/rc2.d/S20inetd: No such file or directory
> 
> I *think* the init script is still functional.
> 

I guess /etc/rc2.d/S20inetd is a dangling symlink then and the package
that left behind this dangling symlink should be fixed first (and as a
second measure we can make the dbus init script more robust to also
detect such broken setups).
Can you can confirm, that it is a dangling symlink? If so, did you make
any manual changes (like deleting /etc/init.d/inetd by accident)?
Do you remember which package shipped /etc/init.d/inetd?

About the second error, the missing netdev group, did you delete this
system user yourself? Can you post the file in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
which contains a "group=netdev" entry.

Cheers,
Michael




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