Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (38 mails)

[Michael Schueller <schueller-berlin@xxxxxx>]

Am Samstag, 27. Januar 2007 schrieb Boyan Tabakov:
> On 27.1.2007 00:37:54 Boyan Tabakov wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Unfortunately my today's update to KDE 3.5.6 got me surprised
> > with something: d-bus daemon fails to start due to segmentation
> > fault. Nothing appears in the /var/log/messages log.
> >
> > First I noticed that my unmounted optical drives icons appeared
> > on the desktop, which they previously did, only when a medium
> > is inserted. Then I got some messages about HAL being needed to
> > mount those. So why wasn't hal running - answer - dbus could
> > not start.
> >
> > I wish, I saved my update log... Anyway, I am pretty sure that
> > the update was only on the normal kde stuff - all the kde*
> > packages, qt, arts and some other that usually get updated upon
> > new KDE release.
> >
> > Reinstalling dbus-1 or the kde 3.5.6 packages showed no
> > results.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> After some debugging the problem revealed itself.
>
> This was caused by this bug in dbus-userdb.c sourse file:
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2006-February/004278.h
>tml
>
> An infinite recursion is caused by having some group name in the
> config files that does not actually exists on the system. In my
> case this seemed to be 'netdev', mentioned in avahi-dbus.conf.
> This file has been created two days ago, during my previous
> update.
>
> The quick workaround is to create a dummy group 'netdev'.
>
> Maybe SuSE should release a patched version of dbus?

Hello Boyan,
thanks for the quick workaround. I had the same prob here, even on 
SuSE 10.1, after upgrading to KDE-3.5.6.
After adding the group the failure is gone, and kpowersave (which 
was down too, is working again.

Greets
Michael


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