Order of the machine-id files

Fridrich Strba fstrba at suse.de
Wed Jan 8 00:18:09 PST 2014


And naturally, the patch sent was missing a semi-colon which is fixed in
this one.

F.

On 08/01/14 09:12, Fridrich Strba wrote:
> Hello, good people,
> 
> I had a number of bug reports with some software not working really
> well when the DBUS_MACHINE_UUID_FILE and the /etc/machine-id files
> differ in their content. I don't know how it comes to be, since I
> cannot reproduce on any of my machines of virtual machines, but real
> users have the two files diverging. I would like to propose an
> attached patch that might actually solve that issue, since the
> /etc/machine-id would be looked for first and only if it does not
> exist, the /var/lib/dbus/machine-id would be considered.
> 
> I am just not sure whether I did not oversee any problematic
> side-effect that this change would have.
> 
> Please, advise
> 
> Fridrich
> 
> 
> 
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