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On 22/07/2013 23:35, FredL wrote: |
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>> Do you perhaps have NetworkManager or wicd installed? |
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>> no, none of them, it is a very basic install, with only the minimum |
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>> packages installed . I have checked at the init script and find a line |
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>> in the depend section saying : |
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>> after lo lo0 dbus |
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>> but dbus is not yet installed, can this be the cause of my problem? |
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> so I have just installed dbus and add it to default runlevel and my |
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> net.* script are loaded correctly setting my static config, so every |
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> thing is fine now. |
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> But why do we need dbus in a very minimalistic system? I was thinking |
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> that it would be helpful in a full desktop environnement for |
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> automagically mounting device and things like that... |
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dbus is NOT a desktop daemon. This is very important, and that single |
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misunderstanding is probably behind all the fud you read about it. |
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dbus implements a message bus - an amazingly useful thing to have. |
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Why do you need or want a message bus? |
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You might as well ask why do you need or want any other form of IPC you |
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already have, as that is what dbus is. It's a very small, light daemon, |
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can run system-wide or per-session and has the potential to many of the |
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IPC implementations you already have. Those are the ones that don't |
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happen to show up in ps so you hear very little whinging about them. |
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That desktop systems are the main user of dbus at this point in time |
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doesn't change one bit what dbus is designed to do and it's usefulness. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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