[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#527846: Bug#527846: Bug#527846: Bug#527846: consolekit: does not provide a init.d script (how do I restart the daemon?)

[Michael Biebl]

Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Sat, 9 May 2009 13:32:20 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote:
> 
> [...]
>> On Sat, 09 May 2009 02:05:20 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote:
> [...]
>>> Well, you can restart consolekit, but then you will have unexpected behaviour
>>> (users in the desktop session will no longer be able to
>>> suspend/hibernate/shutdown etc).
>> I really think that a daemon that cannot be safely restarted without
>> unexpected consequences is badly designed.
>> There *must* be a safe way to restart the daemon without unintended
>> weird behaviors.
> 
> I found out that restarting dbus with
> 
>   # /etc/init.d/dbus restart
> 
> seems to also restart console-kit-daemon (as one would expect, since
> this daemon is managed by D-Bus, as you explained).
> 
> Does this strategy also have bad consequences?

what do you mean by "this strategy"?

> 
> P.S.: is there any progress on fixing this bug?
>       was it forwarded upstream?

I talked to upstream about this quite some time ago. There is no real interest
by upstream to address this. The simple advice by upstream is, to never restart
dbus (or console-kit-daemon for that matter) and reboot when necessary.

I don't really have much time atm to work on that myself, so if you want to see
this fixed, it's a good opportunity to get involved and write a patch.

Michael

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