machine-id file has different id than the daemons have

Yuri yuri at tsoft.com
Sat Feb 27 15:31:42 PST 2010


Thiago Macieira wrote:
> The machine-id file is not written to during the initialisation of 
> D-Bus. It's written on D-Bus installation.
>   
Thanks!
>> Or what would be an explanation of the observed behavior?
>>     
>
> Bad administrator or bad install scripts

So is this the case that 'make install' writes it if it's missing, and 
keeps the old one if it's there?

Currently FreeBSD installer deletes the file when the port is 
uninstalled. I guess this port upgrade caused the problem, because 
upgrade=uninstall+install.

Yuri





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