[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#383963: Bug#376426: dbus, hald, acpid, powernowd fail to startup at boot

[Steve Langasek]

Why are you sending this as a follow-up to a bug about libnss-ldap handling
of low-entropy conditions preventing logins?

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 12:52:03PM +0200, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
> I don't know if it is related to

> update-rc.d deletes links on upgrades
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386500

> but it appeared concurrently.

Only if your problem is that the symlinks for these programs are missing
from the /etc/rc2.d/ directory.

> At this moment I still have to restart dbus, acpid and powernowd manually.
> hald is giving me some further problem apparently caused by:

> Sep 11 10:43:42 localhost kernel: hcid[5876]: segfault at
> 0000000000000038 rip 00000000004188f2 rsp 00007fff7da99530 error 4
> [*]

> that doesn't let dbus restart properly.
> Sometimes
> /etc/init.d/dbus restart
> /etc/init.d/acpid restart
> /etc/init.d/powernowd restart
> works.

> Most of the times I've to reboot and find a "lucky moment" to restart dbus.

> Meanwhile kde lost the ability to automount usb pens (could it be related
> to hald?).

Yes.

> [*] where should I report this problem? generic kernel package? I've an
> athlon64 x2 box

Against the 'kernel' pseudopackage, or (preferably) against the package for
the exact kernel you're running, using reportbug, so that your bug report
will include relevant information about your system.

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