[OE-core] Trouble by last dbus patch (46e6c3fa8034b12d178d605f3f5d7efe69671a13)?

[Andreas Müller]

On Thursday, October 27, 2011 10:43:17 PM Scott Garman wrote:
> On 10/27/2011 01:30 PM, Andreas Müller wrote:
> > Since the last updates of all layers (angstrom based) I have issues with
> >
> > * networkmanager/nm-applet (meta-oe): I am not allowed to change the settings
> >    any more
> > * xfce-session (meta-oe): Logging out takes very long and Restart/Shutdown is
> >    disabled
> >
> > I remember that I had similar issues a while ago. That could be worked around
> > by starting some dbus stuff ( do not exactly remember what it was ).
> >
> > With this vague idea I checked and found in oe-core:
> >
> > | dbus: use useradd class to allow use in read-only filesystems
> > | author	Otavio Salvador<otavio at ossystems.com.br>
> > | commit	46e6c3fa8034b12d178d605f3f5d7efe69671a13
> >
> > Not understanding totally what is all about I see in /etc/passw
> >
> > | messagebus:x:999:998::/var/lib/dbus:/bin/sh
> >
> > but I don't have /var/lib/dbus on my sytem!!
> >
> > I did not check yet, but maybe this is an incompatibilty with angstrom custom
> >
> > | FILESYSTEM_PERMS_TABLES = "fs-perms-angstrom.txt"
> >
> > somebody around to enlight the darkness?
> 
> useradd should be creating the home directory automatically, but I'd 
> guess it's not being picked up during packaging. Try adding:
> 
> ${localstatedir}/lib/dbus
> 
> to FILES_${PN}
> 
> This is a reasonable guess off the top of my head.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
On the machine I created /var/lib/dbus and made messagebus owner but no change
in behaviour..

Andreas