dbus-daemon-1 --system seems to crash

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Thu Aug 5 09:44:28 PDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 05:01, Olivier Andrieu wrote:
>  Havoc Pennington [Thu, 05 Aug 2004]:
>  > On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 15:05, Kay Sievers wrote:
>  > > Wouldn't it be nice to have a command line option instead, so the
>  > > initscript can issue 'dbus-daemon-1 --system --fork' and it will
>  > > always work? 'fork=yes|no' may also be a option to overwrite the
>  > > one in the config file.
>  > 
>  > I like dbus-daemon-1 --system to just do everything, I don't think
>  > there should have to be any magic in the initscripts. (Which is why
>  > dbus-daemon also writes its own pid file, etc.)
>  > 
>  > I would suggest making a system.nofork.conf and use
>  > --config-file=system.nofork.conf
> 
> Or we could turn the --fork option into a --nofork (prevent fork).

Adding a --nofork option would be fine with me.

Havoc




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