[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#903851: DBUS? Continuing Problems after migration to "testing"

[Thomas Hardman]

A very brief question, noticing some messages in syslog, can my problem  be
in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d

On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 7:12 AM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:

> Control: retitle -1 dbus-daemon does not start, perhaps related to having
> a separate /var
>
> On Sat, 28 Jul 2018 at 15:25:47 -0400, Thomas Hardman wrote:
> > I have /var on a "spinner" drive along with /home and /tmp, and /  and
> /usr are
> > on two different partitions of an NVME/PCIe solid-state drive.
> >
> > /etc/fstab mounts these partitions from the "spinner" drive using UUID
> rather
> > than calling (for example) /dev/sda1 to mount on /var. Possibly
> irrelevant.
> >
> > Is it possible that somewhere in the process of mounting the spinner
> partition
> > for /var, the dbus directory with dbus.service and dbus.socket becomes
> > inaccessible and need to be recreated with `service dbus restart`?
>
> Aha. A separate /var mounted relatively late in boot is an unusual
> configuration: it is meant to be supported, but few developers test it,
> so I could well believe that it has regressed at some point.
>
> I'm going to ask some leading questions now, but please don't change
> your system configuration yet based on the answers you think I'm looking
> for to these questions: I might need to ask further questions for more
> diagnostics before settling on a solution.
>
> On your root partition (if you mount the root from an initrd, live-CD or
> similar recovery media), is /var/run a symbolic link to /run, or a real
> directory, or does it not exist at all?
>
> On your /var partition, is /var/run a symbolic link to /run, or is it a
> real directory?
>
> Does your /etc/fstab have an entry for /var/run?
>
> Please could you attach your entire /etc/fstab? If there's anything
> you consider to be sensitive in there, you can email it to smcv at debian.org
> instead of sending it to 903851 at bugs.debian.org, or censor it by replacing
> UUIDs, user-defined directory names etc. with xxxxx, yyyyy etc. in a
> consistent way.
>
> It would also be helpful if you could send /var/log/syslog entries
> for an entire bootup sequence (again, send it to me privately if you
> prefer, and it's OK to censor it but please make it obvious where you
> have done so).
>
> Thanks,
>     smcv
>
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