dbus start problem after update

PhotonX · 2010-02-15 18:17:52

I'm experiencing a really strange behavior after the update on 12. February. But first of all some words about my configuration: I'm using networkmanager, instead of network; also I don't use GDM because of the bug with the input language, gnome-session is started directly.

Now about my problem: The day after the update the xserver crashed on boot. It looked like this: X was loaded, the mouse cursor appeared, sometimes even the Gnome login sound started to play - and then everything was gone and I ended up in the tty. A manual "startx" had the same effect. I tried to install the nVidia beta driver which had no effect either. A start as root or as another user didn't help either. A start without a xorg.conf didn't help. too. Another thing I observed: I didn't have a network connection, so networkmanager hadn't started.

After observing that there was a dbus related error somewhere in the logs, I added dbus to my rc.conf (it wasn't there before because dbus seemed to start automatically, so adding dbus to the rc.conf caused dbus to start up twice). Now dbus started twice but as it seems on the second try it manages to start correctly so I can start X manually (a start on boot up still doesn't work, seems like the second dbus start is too late for X to start correctly). Also I had to exchange networkmanager with network since it starts even without dbus.

So at the moment I have no networkmanager, double dbus start (and the first of them fails) and a manual start of X. Not really comfortable.

Unfortunately I don't find anything related to dbus in the logs. Only some networkmanager errors:

Feb 14 21:42:50 photon-desktop NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_dbus_manager_init_bus(): Could not get the system bus.  Make sure the message bus daemon is running!  Message: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
Feb 14 21:42:50 photon-desktop NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Feb 14 21:42:50 photon-desktop NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_dbus_manager_name_has_owner(): NameHasOwner request failed: (unknown)
Feb 14 21:42:50 photon-desktop NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the modem-manager...
Feb 14 21:42:50 photon-desktop NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed
Feb 14 21:42:50 photon-desktop NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_call_no_reply: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Feb 14 21:42:50 photon-desktop NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed
Feb 14 21:42:50 photon-desktop NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_manager_init(): nm_manager_init: could not initialize avahi-autoipd D-Bus proxy

The packages that were updated before the problems begun are:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     94659 12. Feb 20:13 perl-xyne-arch-2010.02.10.4-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     38686 12. Feb 20:13 perl-xyne-common-2010.02.09.2-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     93594 12. Feb 20:13 zope-interface-3.5.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     21204 12. Feb 20:13 whois-5.0.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     96792 12. Feb 20:13 unrar-3.9.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7379190 12. Feb 20:13 subversion-1.6.9-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  35384340 12. Feb 20:13 stellarium-0.10.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    499270 12. Feb 20:12 postgresql-libs-8.4.2-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    475882 12. Feb 20:12 python-imaging-1.1.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     64218 12. Feb 20:12 obex-data-server-0.4.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1054556 12. Feb 20:12 network-manager-applet-0.7.999-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    796902 12. Feb 20:12 networkmanager-0.7.999-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    192489 12. Feb 20:12 mtools-4.0.12-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10826599 12. Feb 20:12 mplayer-30526-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2784961 12. Feb 20:11 mercurial-1.4.3-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   5378242 12. Feb 20:11 live-media-2010.02.10-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    101609 12. Feb 20:11 libv4l-0.6.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10472502 12. Feb 20:11 k3b-1.70.0beta1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    349700 12. Feb 20:11 kdemultimedia-kioslave-4.4.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10014162 12. Feb 20:11 kdebase-runtime-4.4.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  24826637 12. Feb 20:11 oxygen-icons-4.4.0-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  21407400 12. Feb 20:10 kdelibs-4.4.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2607698 12. Feb 20:10 soprano-2.3.73-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10235193 12. Feb 20:10 virtuoso-6.1.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    215474 12. Feb 20:09 libiodbc-3.52.7-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     95165 12. Feb 20:09 polkit-qt-0.95.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    155607 12. Feb 20:09 attica-0.1.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    107950 12. Feb 20:09 shared-desktop-ontologies-0.2-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    225039 12. Feb 20:09 phonon-4.3.80-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    104355 12. Feb 20:09 phonon-gstreamer-4.3.80-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    608194 12. Feb 20:09 qca-2.0.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    126781 12. Feb 20:09 libssh-0.4.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    121261 12. Feb 20:09 gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins-0.10.13-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    232838 12. Feb 20:09 gstreamer0.10-ugly-0.10.13-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1312436 12. Feb 20:09 gparted-0.5.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184228759 12. Feb 20:09 go-openoffice-3.2.0.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    203786 12. Feb 20:05 enca-1.13-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    620943 12. Feb 20:05 curl-7.20.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  18256138 12. Feb 20:05 chromium-4.0.249.78-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6475822 12. Feb 20:05 ffmpeg-30526-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    863245 12. Feb 20:05 x264-20100207-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6029786 12. Feb 20:05 avidemux-cli-2.5.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    219843 12. Feb 20:05 archlinux-artwork-1.6-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    251850 12. Feb 20:05 wpa_supplicant-0.6.10-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31505552 12. Feb 20:05 kernel26-2.6.32.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1069032 12. Feb 20:04 kernel26-firmware-2.6.32.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6073263 12. Feb 19:57 qtscriptgenerator-0.1.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  36682206 12. Feb 19:56 qt-4.6.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

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#1 2010-02-15 18:17:52

dbus start problem after update

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