Re: udev and dbus

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:43:23PM +0100, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:18:06AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > My main question is, what is the problem with udev and dbus today?  What
> > is causing problems?  Is it only on pathilogical systems that don't have
> > their dbus libraries mounted before udev wants to run?  If so, then tell
> > those users to fix their systems :)
> 
> I recall two problems: 1) various copies of udev races to acquire the 
> org.kernel.udev service so they can emit a signal that listening apps
> can intercept; and 2) if the dbus message bus daemon isn't running the
> dbus init script takes a long time to run.
> 
> Supposedly 2. is an easy fix - that's just checking a file in /var/run,
> but I never got to find out how to solve 1. - it *could* be an easy
> fix as well. Let me look into it again.

Great, I'd rather not have to change the udev model in order to support
dbus if we can help it :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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