[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#649362: dbus : Missing /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket on boot causes kdm to fail

[Paul O'Grady]

Package: dbus
Version: 1.2.24-4+squeeze1

Hi

I'm having problems with dbus and 2.6.32-trunk-5 on boot. When I boot
into this kernel kdm fails to start and I'm left with a black screen.
After investigation, when I boot into the recovery kernel and log in as
root /var/run/dbus/ is empty (should have pid system_bus_socket). When I
start the dbus daemon the files appear and I can start kdm. However, the
problem does not appear when I boot into trunk  (2.6.32-trunk-amd64).
The absence of /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket is causing kdm (and other
systems) to fail and nothing I do seems to make
/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket appear on boot. This problem appeared
after my kernel wedged on shutdown and I had to perform a hard reset. I
have reinstalled the kernel and dbus to no avail.

Any ideas on how to get /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket running for
2.6.32-trunk-5 at boot??

Thanks,

Paul.

> cat /etc/debian_version
6.0.3
(Squeeze)