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On 23/07/2013 00:02, FredL wrote: |
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> Le 2013/07/22 22:44, Alan McKinnon a écrit : |
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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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> ok, thanks for your explanation and your help, my last fresh install was |
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> a very long time ago and I can't remember having to install dbus before |
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> having my net script working, but a lot of things have changed since |
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> this last install and that is probably what I miss in this fresh install |
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> process |
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I wonder why you didn;t have dbus installed. You said you copied the new |
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install over from an old one, right? |
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So emerge world should have pulled in everything you need. |
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What's different between that new install and the old one? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |