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ruhar

Member

Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 37

Error starting dbus

On boot, or at any time, when dbus starts, I receive the following error message

Failed to start message bus:  The pid file "/var/run/dbus.pid" exists, if the message bus is not running, remove this file

If I delete this file and then manually start dbus, then there is no problem.  However, on the next reboot, I receive the same error.  I'm not able to permanently fix the issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

failure

Member

From: Chile

Registered: 2005-04-29

Posts: 40

Re: Error starting dbus

remove the file and run it again:

killall dbus ; rm /var/run/dbus.pid ; /etc/rc.d/dbus start

or change in the /etc/dbus-1/system.conf  the line about the pid file:

<pidfile>/var/run/dbus.pid</pidfile>