[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#804183: upgrade to 1.10.4-1 creates circular inclusion

[Brent S. Elmer Ph.D.]

On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 01:13 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 23/11/15 20:11, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote:
> > My system may have been in an odd state due to this bug causing the
> > 1.10.4-1 upgrade to perpetuate the circular dependency.  How do I
> > get
> > my system to a good state again?
> 
> Before doing anything to try to solve it, please show me the output
> of:
> 
> ls -la /etc/dbus-1/
> 
> Ideally, what you want (with uninteresting date/ownership/size
> columns
> removed to avoid linewrapping) is something like this:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x [...] .
> drwxr-xr-x [...] ..
> lrwxrwxrwx [...] session.conf -> /usr/share/dbus-1/session.conf
> drwxr-xr-x [...] session.d
> lrwxrwxrwx [...] system.conf -> /usr/share/dbus-1/system.conf
> drwxr-xr-x [...] system.d
> 
> *.dpkg-{dist,old,new} files are also OK. *.dpkg-bak are OK but only
> if
> they are real files, not if they are symlinks into /usr/share/dbus-
> 1/;
> if in doubt, rename them out of the way.
> 
> If /etc/dbus-1/s*.conf.bak is a symlink into /usr/share/dbus-1/,
> delete
> that symlink.
> 
> For completeness, also check that /usr/share/dbus-1/session.conf and
> /usr/share/dbus-1/system.conf are real files, not symlinks. If not,
> move
> them out of the way, then reinstall dbus (something like "sudo dpkg
> -i
> /var/cache/apt/archives/dbus_1.10.4-1_*.deb" should work).
> 
> Having reached a stable state, "sudo service dbus reload" should
> work.
> Please substitute your favourite way of running things as root if
> that
> isn't sudo.
> 
> I'm reluctant to add any additional workarounds in the dbus package
> to
> try to sort out your system automatically, because the bad situation
> could only be hit by downgrading (which is unsupported anyway), and
> the
> more special-case code I add to the maintainer scripts, the more
> likely
> it is that I'll accidentally cause some regression for someone else.
> 
>     S
> 

$ ls -la /etc/dbus-1/
total 32
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 Nov 23 13:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 163 root root 12288 Nov 23 13:57 ..
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    30 Nov 23 13:56 session.conf ->
/usr/share/dbus-1/session.conf
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    30 Nov  3 13:23 session.conf.dpkg-bak ->
/usr/share/dbus-1/session.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   828 Sep 15 17:09 session.conf.dpkg-new
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 27 17:12 session.d
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    29 Nov 23 13:56 system.conf ->
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.conf
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    29 Nov  3 13:23 system.conf.dpkg-bak ->
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   823 Sep 15 17:09 system.conf.dpkg-new
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Nov 23 13:57 system.d