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

[Klaus 'mrmoku' Kurzmann]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, 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?

one problem seems to be /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
having wrong ownership. It is root:root instead of root:messagebus how
it should be. Dunno if that is the only problem but fixing that makes
dbus-activation work again.


> Andreas


Klaus 'mrmoku' Kurzmann