[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#573386: DBUS fails to restart on ugrade, breaking dependent daemons in the process

[Juha Jäykkä]

Package: dbus
Version: 1.2.20-2
Severity: normal


On upgrade, dbus tries to restart itself, shutting down dependent processes
before doing so. This includes network-manager.

Once shut down, dbus restarts - except it cannot, it waits for of the order of
an hour before timing out (I presume this is a timeout), after which none of the
dependent services manage to restart (because the dbus is missing).

I thought for about a year that this is a bug, but either no-one has bothered
reporting it or this is a design flaw, which should be addressed.

Also, afterwards, all upgades of dependent daemons have the same freeze+timemout
behaviour trying to reload the system message bus config.

End result is a very painful upgrade process, something which reminds me of my
windows admin days: forced reboot etc.

-Juha

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dbus depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.20-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                     2.0.1-7    XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.89-4   SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

dbus recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dbus suggests:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.20-2   simple interprocess messaging syst

-- no debconf information