[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#813970: dbus: purge fails: invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "stop" failed.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Simon McVittie (2016-02-07 13:06:06)
> On 07/02/16 07:35, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> I cannot purge dbus package on my server
>
> Are you trying to remove and then purge, or do both in one operation?

Both at once.

Removing and then purging worked.

...but then reinstalling (to try get you some more enlightening logdata) 
caused the install to hang:

root at xayide:~# aptitude install dbus
Følgende NYE pakker vil blive installeret:
  dbus 
0 pakker opgraderet, 1 nyinstalleret, 0 til afinstallering og 0 ikke opgraderet.
Skal hente 291 kB arkiver. Efter udpakning vil 903 kB blive brugt.
Hent: 1 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main dbus amd64 1.8.20-0+deb8u1 [291 kB]
Hentede 291 kB på 0s (308 kB/s)
Henter fejlrapporter ... Færdig
Fortolker information for fundet/rettet ... Færdig
Vælger tidligere fravalgt pakke dbus.
(Læser database ... 104254 filer og kataloger installeret i øjeblikket.)
Gør klar til at udpakke .../dbus_1.8.20-0+deb8u1_amd64.deb ...
Udpakker dbus (1.8.20-0+deb8u1) ...
Behandler udløsere for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ...
Behandler udløsere for systemd (215-17+deb8u3) ...
Sætter dbus (1.8.20-0+deb8u1) op ...



>> (Læser database ... 104307 filer og kataloger installeret i øjeblikket.)
>> Afinstallerer dbus (1.8.20-0+deb8u1) ...
>> Job for dbus.service canceled.
>> invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "stop" failed.
>
> Output of "LC_ALL=C systemctl -l status dbus" please?

a moment ago (before trying to reinstall dbus):

root at xayide:~# LC_ALL=C systemctl -l status dbus
* dbus.service
   Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2016-02-07 09:19:41 CET; 3h 50min ago
 Main PID: 32549 (dbus-daemon)
   CGroup: /system.slice/dbus.service
           `-32549 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation

again (after reinstall attempt while hanging):

* dbus.service - D-Bus System Message Bus
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dbus.service; static)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2016-02-07 09:19:41 CET; 4h 15min ago
     Docs: man:dbus-daemon(1)
 Main PID: 32549 (dbus-daemon)
   CGroup: /system.slice/dbus.service
           `-32549 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation


> Or if that doesn't contain anything enlightening, the Journal or 
> syslog around the time you tried to remove dbus?

Not sure if above is enlightening to you (isn't to me).  syslog doesn't 
mention the word "dbus" at all since before the removal.

How do I fetch data from Journal?


Another detail: The version I reported initially was wrong (issue found 
on a server running stable, whereas I report using my laptop running 
unstable).  Bug should instead be tied to version 1.8.20-0+deb8u1


 - Jonas

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