dbus Failing at Boot

rbrownclown · 2007-04-20 01:19:42

I'm running a fresh installation of Arch 64 + Gnome.

Something is failing at boot. I'm not 100% sure what it is (flashes up the screen too fast), but I think it's dbus. Alsa loads after it, and dbus is right before alsa in my rc.conf.

First of all, what does dbus do? What does hal do that dbus doesn't and vice-versa? I know they both have something to do with auto mounting, but that's it.

Second of all, where are the boot errors logged? How do I stop dbus from failing?

bones · 2007-04-20 05:05:58

I was having problems with fam. Took a while to work out but maybe it's a similar problem to yours. For some strange reason fam was missing from the groups file. I added that and reinstalled hal, fam, dbus, glib2, glibc. Seems to be working fine now, fingers crossed.

EDIT: Cancel that idea still not working, back to square one

Last edited by bones (2007-04-20 05:20:38)

klixon · 2007-04-20 06:46:53

just so you can be sure what's failing, do this:

# cp /etc/issue{,.old}
# vim /etc/issue

and remove the first line.

Now your screen won't clear before giving the login-prompt, so you can check which daemons is misbehaving...

rbrownclown · 2007-04-20 15:25:23

It's definitely dbus. Thanks.

I think I figured out what's going wrong. Hal automatically starts dbus, correct? I read that somewhere on the Wiki last night. Do I even need dbus on there?

klixon · 2007-04-20 16:15:25

You're right... probably not... I just keep it in there to keep track what loads...
If you want to be sure, just try it If it doesn't work as expected, restore your backup of rc.conf and either reboot, or load them daemons manually

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dbus Failing at Boot

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