machine-id file has different id than the daemons have

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Sábado 27. Fevereiro 2010, às 22.45.48, Yuri escreveu:
> I have this PR in IBus
> http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=789 . IBus relies on DBus
> in message passing.
> On FreeBSD machine I spotted the situation when all dbus-daemon
> processes are started on Feb 17 (see note in PR), but machine-id file is
> written on Feb 21 and has different id.
> 
> My guess is that an extra instance of dbus-daemon was launched on this
> machine at the time of high load. Maybe because the communication with
> the original dbus daemon was timing out (?).
> And this new instance also got some error code opening machine-id file
> and rewrote it. And exited later for some reason.
> 
> What measures does DBus take to prevent such things?

The machine-id file is not written to during the initialisation of D-Bus. It's 
written on D-Bus installation.

> Or what would be an explanation of the observed behavior?

Bad administrator or bad install scripts.

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