dbus-daemon-1 --system seems to crash

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 09:23 +0000, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> Are there known problems with dbus 0.21?
> Because it seems to crash with --system
> if I start dbus-daemon-1 --system
> ps shows no dbus-daemon-1 process running
> and if I try to run dbus-daemon-1 again, it complaints that pid file
> already exists
> can I enable debug or something?
> 
> running on slackware 10
> 
> lupusBE (Kristof Vansant Belgium)

DBus needs to run as an unprivileged user (usually messagebus or dbus).
Open the file /etc/dbus-1/system.conf and see what user is listed in the
<user> tag.  Make sure to create this user with no password or shell.

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John (J5) Palmieri
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Red Hat, Inc.
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