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

[Andreas Müller]

On Friday, October 28, 2011 12:22:11 PM Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 22:30 +0200, 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?
> 
> There are some issues due to the orcering of when we now start some of
> the services. After the above change the dbus service starts much
> earlier on first boot, before some of the other postinstalls have run.
> This can mean you see errors due to users which have not yet been
> created by postinstalls (e.g. avahi or xuser) yet the dbus files
> reference these and its trying to start those services.
> 
> We're looking at fixing the remaining adduser type postinstalls to
> address this. I'm not sure if this is related to the problem you were
> seeing above or not.
> 
FYI: reverting the patch fixes mentioned issues here.

Andreas