From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:56:02 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and dbus Message-Id: <20040310195602.GA19991@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040217214449.GB12411@wonderland.linux.it> In-Reply-To: <20040217214449.GB12411@wonderland.linux.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel